The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

LaborInterviewPodcast

South Baltimore Residents Have Had Enough of Rail Giant Pollution

Curtis Bay residents rallied at the CSX rail terminal with a simple demand: “We have to remove CSX for the health of our communities.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

Jamaal Bowman’s Loss Does Not Mean That AIPAC Is Winning

The Squad may have lost a key member, but AIPAC has had to drastically narrow its ambitions, targeting the most vulnerable of Israel critics in order to inflate its strength.

Branko Marcetic

Rural America

How U.S. Cities Outsource Their Carbon Emissions to Rural Areas

While the rest of country benefits, rural communities are disproportionately exposed to the pollution caused by power and food production.

Claire Carlson

Viewpoint

The Myth of the "Poll-Driven" Democrat Is Cover for Conservative Policy Preferences

Selective "popularism" is being used by the Democratic Party establishment to pursue reactionary ideological goals.

Adam Johnson

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: We Must Understand Israel as a Settler-Colonial State

"Just as the U.S. celebrates itself as 'a nation of immigrants,' Zionists celebrated Palestine as a land without people for a people without land."

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Departments

LGBT Workers Need Unions, Not Rainbow Capitalism

Major companies are weighing the benefits of pinkwashing as anti-LGBT extremism is on the rise. Doug Ireland's 1999 piece reminds us what organized labor can offer queer and trans workers.

In These Times Editors

Dispatch

“Raid Happening Now”: Scenes from UChicago’s Popular University

“We are the encampment. We’ll be back.”

Eman Abdelhadi

Viewpoint

The Landmark Ruling Against Chiquita Exposes the Failure of Voluntary “Corporate Social Responsibility”

Chiquita’s financing of a Colombian paramilitary group while claiming a reputation as a “responsible corporate citizen” shows the need for robust civil society institutions.

Manpreet Kaur Kalra and Anna Canning

FeatureIsrael & PalestineElection 2024

The Crackdown on Campus Protests is Just Beginning

At least a dozen colleges and universities have changed their policies to make it harder to protest the war on Gaza. More may follow this summer.

Adam Federman

Viewpoint

Trump’s Conviction Doesn’t Change the Fact That the Criminal Justice System Is Rigged In Favor of Rich Elites

The conviction of Donald Trump is not proof that the criminal justice system works—it was simply never intended to ensnare people like him.

Sonali Kolhatkar

LaborInterviewPodcast

How Big Business Made a Sacrifice Zone out of South Baltimore

Longtime Baltimore residents on the fight for environmental justice and what it feels like to be "sacrificed" by industry.

Maximillian Alvarez

ViewpointElection 2024

A Right-Wing Turn to Nowhere

The banal cruelty of Europe’s “protest vote for the status quo.”

Alberto Toscano

LaborInterviewPodcast

Baltimore Longshoreman on the Key Bridge Collapse: “It’s not surprising that this ship lost power.”

Veteran longshoreman John Blom on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the slow recovery ahead for port workers.

Maximillian Alvarez

Culture

No, JoJo Siwa Did Not Invent Gay Pop

Let’s not erase the icons that came before us.

Briana L. Ureña-Ravelo

LaborViewpoint

Those Who Hate Public Sector Unions Also Hate Democracy. It's Not a Coincidence.

A huge union win in the Fairfax County schools could be the first of many.

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

Independent Press for Working People and a Free Palestine

In These Times was recently awarded the 2024 Izzy Award for “outstanding achievement in independent media.” This speech has been significantly edited for length and clarity.

Alex Han

Safe Abortions Everywhere, Regardless of the Law

After Dobbs, learning from the Global South.

Naomi Braine

LaborViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Students, Gaza and a New Vision of Safety

"We Keep Us Safe" is more than a slogan at student encampments. It inspires an avenue to protection and community that undercuts a security state bolstered by genocide—and can show us all a path forward.

Sarah Jaffe