The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature
The Media Is Giving Facebook a Free Pass to Shut Down Activists Over Russia Fears
An anti-fascist coalition says its event page was unfairly targeted in the tech giant's latest crackdown.
Sarah Lazare and Julianne Tveten
Labor
Trump Appointees Are Pushing a Deregulation Plan That Could Dramatically Erode Consumer Protections
David Dayen
Rural America
Slaughterhouses Offer Rural Communities Employment but Low Wages
Christopher Walljasper
Rural America
No One Wins in a Trade War, Especially not American Farmers
Amanda M. Countryman
Feature
Jonathan Chait Is the Last Person We Should Listen To When It Comes to Trump and Russia
Chait says Russiagate skeptics are foolish. Here's why he's completely wrong.
Branko Marcetic
Dispatch
When the “Cure” for Homosexuality Is Torture
Ecuador led the way on LGBTQ rights, but abusive “gay cure” clinics persist.
Kimberley Brown
Feature
The Long History of America’s Violent Intervention in Afghanistan
The people of Afghanistan are paying a horrible price for the protracted U.S. occupation.
Gregory Shupak
Feature
On Michael Harrington’s Democratic Socialism
Maurice Isserman's biography of Harrington depicts a fierce lifelong advocate for democratic socialism who butted heads with the New Left but never wavered in his commitment to economic justice.
Kim Phillips-Fein
Feature
Michael Harrington, an American Socialist
DSA founder Michael Harrington served as a moral tribune for a broad community by virtue of the democratic and egalitarian content of his socialist message, and by his ceaseless commitment to spreading it.
Harold Meyerson
Feature
Socialists Practice Internal Democracy, Endorse Cynthia Nixon—And the Media Is Riveted
Mainstream outlets can't stop writing about how the NYC DSA’s endorsement of Cynthia Nixon was a model of democracy in action, unlike the Democratic Party.
Kate Aronoff
Culture
Why Dreams of Striking It Rich Are Actually Anti-Capitalist
The quest for buried treasure is a quest to escape the market.
David Anthony
Labor
California Says Starbucks Has to Stop Stealing Its Workers’ Wages
Michael Arria
Feature
“Democratic Socialism Will Prevail”: An Interview with Ron Dellums in 1976
Dellums, a democratic socialist member of the House of Representatives, was interviewed in the first issue of In These Times, saying “if democracy means anything, it should mean a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.”
John Judis
Dispatch
At the World Bank’s Climate Summit, Financiers Trade Carbon While the World Burns
At “Innovate4Climate,” the people destroying the planet gather to congratulate themselves on their climate efforts.
Kate Aronoff
Labor
“You Can’t Eat GDP”: Workers Struggle as Trump and Corporate Media Tout Economic Growth
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
Labor
Elon Musk and Rahm Emanuel’s New Transportation Scheme Is a Privatization Bonanza
Emma Tai and Stephanie Farmer
Dispatch
“You Can’t Eat GDP”: Workers Struggle as Trump and Corporate Media Tout Growth
"If it's not reaching workers' paychecks, which it isn't, then cease the applause."
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
Labor
On the Disturbing Return of Black Lung
Sarah Lahm
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