The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Labor
A New Model for Progressive Politics in the Heart of Deindustrialization
Bruce Vail
Labor
Homeownership Is Dead. The Future Lies in Public Housing.
Market-centric housing policies have failed and the path forward is clear: have the government create robust public housing.
Tanner Howard
Feature
Congress Wants to Give Trump a Bipartisan Blank Check for Declaring War
Presidents have been declaring war by executive fiat. A new bill to replace the AUMF would rubber stamp it.
Danny Sjursen
Culture
Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Work Couldn’t Come at a Better Time
In Barracoon, published 58 years after her death, the Harlem Renaissance writer interviews the last known survivor of a slave ship.
Lauren Michele Jackson
Labor
Prisoners Are Organizing a Nationwide Strike Against “Modern-Day Slavery”
Michael Arria
Rural America
Farm Crisis: “Without Immediate Government Action, The Days Of The Small Dairy Farm Are Numbered”
Paul Deaton
Labor
Postal Banking Could Become a Reality Even Without Congress. Here’s How.
David Dayen
Viewpoint
Why This Iraq War Vet Is Speaking Out Against Trump’s Reckless Foreign Policy
To expand the anti-war movement, Maggie Martin is connecting struggles against U.S. militarism at home and abroad.
Tanner Howard
Labor
In a National May Day Strike, Puerto Rican Marchers Face Down Tear Gas To Protest Privatization
Kate Aronoff
Culture
What Noam Chomsky Got Right About NAFTA
In 1994, writing for In These Times, Noam Chomsky predicted the trade deal would cause “rural misery and a surplus of labor” and “the fading of meaningful and democratic processes.”
In These Times Editors
Labor
Yes, a Jobs Guarantee Could Create “Boondoggles.” It Also Might Save the Planet.
Kate Aronoff
Labor
Why These Immigrants Are Shutting Their City Down This May Day
Sarah Jaffe
Rural America
From Punk Rock to Ultramarathons, Diverse Economies Are Taking Shape in Coal Country
Nico Gendron
Feature
How Politicians Are Using Faux Progressive Arguments to Lock Up Young People
For six years, Seattle activists battled with policymakers who are pushing for a costly new youth jail and court project.
Dean Spade
Feature
The Historic Korean Peace Declaration Was Made Possible By Social Movements, Not Trump
A conversation with peace activist Christine Ahn.
Sarah Lazare
Feature
The Visa Loophole That Big Ag Construction Firms Love To Exploit
How hog barn builders are importing labor at low wages and leaving local workers in the dust.
Stephen Franklin et al.
Labor
University of Iowa Faculty Are Showing How Labor Can Organize Under Right-to-Work
Daniel Moattar
Feature
Lead Is a National Crisis: We Need to Fight for Clean, Publicly Owned Water Before It Is Too Late
Four years after the Flint water crisis began, our nation remains plagued by unsafe drinking water. The solution is a massive public investment in infrastructure.
Rep. Keith Ellison and Wenonah Hauter
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