The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

Trump Is Bringing Us to the Brink of War with North Korea—Where Is the Anti-War Movement?

The only way forward on North Korea is peace. But first we need dialogue.

Christine Ahn

Rural America

An Industrial Chemical Poisoned Their Water, Now Upstate New Yorkers Want to Know What Replaced It

Tracy Frisch

Labor

Meet the Management-Side Lawyer Who Called ICE on Workers Suing Their Bosses

Ted Rohrlich, FairWarning

Feature

America Wasn’t a “Gun-Loving Country” Until a $13.5 Billion Industry Made It So

Historian Pamela Haag’s The Gunning of America refocuses the gun debate on the moguls who made America into the land of guns -- and mass shootings.

Steve Ryfle

Culture

Top Four Reads for the Red Centennial

Books about Bolsheviks.

In These Times Staff

Labor

The Trump Administration’s Backdoor Plan to Erode the Rights of Workers to Act Collectively

Moshe Z. Marvit

Feature

We Still Don’t Know How Many Have Died In Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria

There could be hundreds more dead than is currently being reported in the official tally.

Omaya Sosa Pascual

Labor

SCOTUS Is on the Verge of Decimating Public-Sector Unions—But Workers Can Still Fight Back

Shaun Richman

Labor

Hugh Hefner Wasn’t Just a Creep—He Was Also a Shitty Boss

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

What’s Worse Than Airline Food? The Catering Companies Selling It.

s.e.smith

Rural America

Foreign Control of U.S. Farmland has Recently Doubled, And the USDA Doesn’t Know Who Owns What

Johnathan Hettinger

Labor

Robert Reich: Trump and the GOP’s New Tax Plan Is a Giant Gift to the 1%

Robert Reich

Feature

Puerto Rico’s Isolated Mountain Communities Are Rapidly Running Out of Food And Water

The federal, national and municipal governments have still not cleared the way into at least nine neighborhoods in Utuado, the third largest municipality in Puerto Rico.

Eliván Martínez Mercado

Labor

The Left Needs Its Own Shock Doctrine for Puerto Rico

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

If the Left Wants to Win Elections, It Should Heed the Lessons of This Progressive Third Party

Left groups engaging in electoral politics today can learn from the trials, errors and successes of the Working Families Party.

Sam Lewis and Luke Elliott-Negri

Feature

The Anti-Trump Resistance Must Not Fall Into the “Good” Vs. “Bad” Immigrant Trap

With renewed focus on the DREAM Act it's important that any immigration reform benefit all undocumented people.

Organized Communities Against Deportations

Dispatch

When Green Jobs Come at the Expense of Unions

A declining Rust Belt town turned to wind power—and away from organized labor.

Yana Kunichoff

Rural America

A Rural Progressive Platform: To Fix Stuff Democrats Have to Stop Being Stupid

Anthony Flaccavento