The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Culture

What a Century-Old Socialist Newspaper Can Teach Us About the Left

Inside Appeal to Reason, the paper that inspired In These Times

Sharon Carson

Feature

How SWAT Team Expos Are Militarizing Police Departments Across the Country

Instead of disaster preparedness and storm relief, resources are being funneled into violent police trainings and arms exchanges.

Tara Tabassi

Labor

Farmworkers Say “Us Too,” Demanding Freedom From Sexual Violence

Michelle Chen

Rural America

Rural Communities Look to the Past to Defeat the Industrial Agriculture of the Present

John Ikerd

Feature

COP23 Proved That Indigenous Peoples Still Don’t Have a Real Voice in Climate Negotiations

While the Indigenous Peoples' Caucus was given a seat at the climate negotiations table, this role was largely symbolic.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

The House GOP’s Tax Bill Would Make Graduate School Too Expensive For All But the Rich

Jeff Schuhrke

Feature

As the J20 Trial Begins, We Must Not Allow Trump to Imprison Dissenters When They Are Needed Most

A defendant calls for collective defense against repression—and continued resistance.

Olivia Alsip

Dispatch

The Pope May Speak About Climate Justice, But in L.A., the Church Leases Land to an Oil Company

Oil and holy water don’t mix.

Charles Davis

Feature

Bernie Sanders Is Now Backing Randy Bryce—Which Could Be Very Bad News for Paul Ryan

Sanders' endorsement of Bryce comes at a time when the former union organizer and steelworker is rising in the polls in his bid to unseat House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Marc Daalder

Feature

Puerto Rican Former Political Prisoner: “Colonialism Is a Crime Against Humanity”

Ricardo Jimenez talks about anti-conialism, prison abolition and LGBTQ liberation.

Sophie Drukman-Feldstein

Rural America

Minnesota Must Say “No” to Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline

John Marty, Minnesota State Senator

Feature

Barbara Lee’s War on War

Washington’s voice of conscience since 9/11.

Matthew Cunningham-Cook

Feature

The Paradise Papers Are Proof That Capitalism and Racism Fuel The Global Plutocracy

To end the immoral abuses documented in the Paradise Papers, we must challenge the systems of both entrenched wealth and racial domination.

Sam Adler-Bell

Feature

Nationalize the Fossil Fuel Industry

For a big problem, we need big solutions.

Carla Skandier

Labor

An Affordable Housing Movement Is Rising from the Wreckage of the Foreclosure Crisis

Michael Arria

Feature

What the South Can Teach the Rest of the Country About Resisting the Right

A conversation with organizers of the Southern Movement Assembly, a convergence of bottom-up organizations rooted in Black struggle.

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Robert Reich: The GOP Tax Bill Is Everything That’s Wrong With Our Democracy

The Republican plan will hurt the poor, enrich the wealthy and make GOP campaign donors very happy.

Robert Reich

Rural America

Wisconsin Dairy Farmer to GOP: Your Estate Tax Claims Are Bogus

Jim Goodman