The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Dispatch

Public Banking Can Fund the Zero-Carbon Economy

Private banks have been underwriting the expansion of the fossil fuel industry for years. It’s time for a public model.

Aaron Fernando

Viewpoint

Why We Devoted an Entire Issue to Climate Change

The most ambitious climate proposal ever seen on Capitol Hill is a call to action. We need to answer the call.

Dayton Martindale

Dispatch

Hawai‘i’s Managed Retreat Proposal Offers an Early Model for Relocation—At a Cost

As seas rise, middle- and working-class Hawaiians worry they’ll be forced out of their homes, while the rich rebuild.

Alex Lubben

Labor

Why the NCAA Should Pay Student-Athletes—And Let Them Unionize

Brian Wakamo

Viewpoint

Chicago’s Elections Brought a Lot of Good News for Progressives—and Democratic Socialists

Rahm Emanuel is gone, and a new crop of left-wing city council members is coming to power.

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Labor

Education Privatizers Have Gone Global. So Must We If We Want to Stop Them.

Christian Addai-Poku and Michael Galant

Labor

Fighting Against Racism—And For a Better Paycheck—On the Docks

Shaun Richman

Culture

We Were Against ICE Before It Existed

The criminalization of immigrants goes back well before ICE’s inception.

In These Times Editors

Viewpoint

The Case for Using Ranked Choice Voting in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primaries

To make the 2020 primary campaign more democratic, we should demand a system that takes all voter preferences into account. That system is ranked choice voting.

Adam Eichen

Feature

Filing Your Taxes Is Already Difficult. The House Just Passed a Bill That Keeps It That Way Forever.

The new bill could keep H&R Block and Intuit’s profits high—while keeping your taxes complicated to file.

Elizabeth Zach

Feature

The Media Must Face Up to Its Role in Inflaming a Frenzy Over Russiagate

By claiming Trump was colluding with Putin, media outlets distracted from the president’s overt crimes while escalating tensions with Russia. They should own up to their failures.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

We Won Sick Days at Macy’s—And We Did It With Style

Nichole Booker and Curtisy Bryant

Feature

Both Chicago Mayoral Candidates Claim to Be Progressive. Here’s a Close Look Into Their Records.

Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle have each run under the “progressive” mantle. Yet their records—and conversations with movement organizers—tell a more complicated story.

Camille Erickson

Labor

Labor Law Doesn’t Apply If You’re in Prison

Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard

Dispatch

Activists Sue LaGrange, Georgia, for Denying Water, Gas and Electricity to Undocumented Immigrants

Without a Social Security number and U.S.-issued photo ID, you can’t get basic utilities in cities across the South.

Allison Salerno

Labor

A Blow But Not Fatal: 9 Months After Janus, AFSCME Reports 94% Retention

Heather Gies

Feature

Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Self-Serving Optimists Like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker

There’s a reason Bill Gates loves Pinker and Rosling—their analyses obscure inequality.

Roland Paulsen

Feature

A Healthcare Industry Built on Premature Death

On the cruelty of private healthcare corporations.

Roqayah Chamseddine