The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Labor
Volkswagen Workers in Tennessee Won’t Give Up the Fight for Unionization
Chris Brooks
Labor
McDonald’s Retreat on Fighting Wage Increases Shows the Tide Is Turning
Sarah Lahm
Rural America
The Decline of Custom Harvests and the Struggle of Rural America
Michael J. Dax
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
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