The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Culture

The Grooming Gap: What “Looking the Part” Costs Women

If women don’t conform to beauty expectations, they’re paid less.

Mindy Isser

Rural America

The Deforestation of the Amazon Was Named the ‘Statistic of the Decade’

Liberty Vittert

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Our 15 Most Read Stories of 2019

Throughout the tumultuous past 12 months, In These Times has been there every step of the way. Here are our most popular stories of 2019.

In These Times Editors

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Impeachment Trial Will Take Sanders and Warren Off the Campaign Trail

The campaigns have plans, but some supporters worry Biden and Buttigieg will get an edge in Iowa.

Will Kang

Rural America

The Little Shell Tribe of Montana Just Got Federal Recognition. Why Did It Take So Long?

Gabriel Furshong

Rural America

Coffee, Avocados, Chocolate and Other Foods Climate Change Could Take Off The Menu

Pat Thomas

Viewpoint

Fox News, Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda

For nearly a quarter of American adults, Fox News is their only cable news source. It tells them what Trump wants them to hear.

Joel Bleifuss

Dispatch

Using Roleplaying To Imagine Life Under a Green New Deal—Dungeons & Dragons Style

Instead of wizards and clerics, Iowans are envisioning roles like community planners and memory stewards, in an environmentally and economically just society.

Gavin Aronsen

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Buttigieg Is Shocked, Shocked at McKinsey’s Transgressions. But It Was Notorious When He Joined It.

McKinsey was embroiled in a nationwide scandal over helping insurance companies squeeze customers.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

“The Algorithm Made Us Do It”: How Bosses at Instacart “Mathwash” Labor Exploitation

Audrey Winn

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CAP Publicly Distanced Itself From the UAE. 8 Months Later, It Was Still Meeting with UAE Lobbyists.

A foreign policy expert at the influential think tank remained close to UAE lobbyists.

Sarah Lazare

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Cities Aren’t Waiting for a Federal Green New Deal

Activists are pushing sweeping climate action at the local level.

Indigo Olivier

Labor

Trump’s North America Trade Deal Is Poised to Worsen Climate Change—But Dems Don’t Seem To Mind

Rachel M. Cohen

Rural America

This Oasis Shows the Diverse History of the Mexico Borderlands. Trump’s Wall Threatens to Destroy It

Jared Orsi

InvestigationGoodman Institute

The “Collateral Damage” of the U.S.’s Unofficial War in Somalia

"Surgical" U.S. air strikes in Somalia affect more than just their targets.

Amanda Sperber

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The U.S. and Other Rich Countries Stonewalled $300 Billion Climate Relief Fund

Furious activists protested, but mandatory measures remained lacking as negotiations continue into the night on Friday.

Christine MacDonald

Viewpoint

What the U.S. Left Can Learn From the Labour Party’s Epic Loss

Liberal pundits say the lesson is that Democrats shouldn’t move left. They’re wrong.

David Adler

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Introducing the Working People Podcast

A podcast by, for, and about the working class today.

In These Times Editors