The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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It’s Still Their Party: What the DNC Purge Means for the Democrats’ Left Flank

By removing Ellison and Sanders backers from DNC leadership, the Democratic establishment is ruthlessly tightening its grip on the party. Progressives should take a lesson.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

Workers Say NAFTA’s Neoliberal Foundations Need to Be Dismantled from the Left—Not the Right

Jeff Schuhrke

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Shackles Aren’t “Bracelets”: Why We Should Be Concerned About the Marketing of Punitive Technology

Electronic monitors are devices of unfreedom—not decoration.

James Kilgore

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White Lawmakers Are Using Alabama’s Racist State Constitution To Keep Black Wages Down

Alabama wrote its 1901 constitution to “establish white supremacy.” Workers in a majority-black city say it’s Jim Crow all over again.

Bryce Covert

Labor

What Taxi and Uber Drivers Really Think About the Ride-Sharing Boom

Teke Wiggin

Labor

Harvey Weinstein Revelations Force the Question: Where Was the Screen Actors Guild?

Morgan Spector

Rural America

How Much Nitrate Is in Rural America’s Water?

John Collins

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In CNN’s Tax Debate, Bernie Sanders Showed How Democrats Can Win with Socialism

By offering a bold vision of policies to help working families, Sanders voiced a popular alternative to Ted Cruz and the GOP's barbarism.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

A Case Study in How NAFTA Undermines Strikes

Gerard DiTrolio and Doug Nesbitt

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Trump’s Heritage Foundation Speech Is a Sign of the Coming All-Out War Within the Right

Both factions of the conservative movement want tax cuts for the rich—but the knives are out between the Bannon and GOP establishment wings.

Theo Anderson

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When the Market Went Dark

Thirty years after the crash of ’87 and we’re still at the mercy of a volatile economic system.

In These Times Staff

Culture

An Exhibit on Japanese Internment Shows How Far We Haven’t Come

Racial policy, hate crimes, immigration, civil rights and national security are all themes that continue to reverberate today.

Nora Mabie

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Trump Plans to Make It Easier to Kill Civilians with Drones. We Can Thank Obama for Paving the Way.

As the war on terror enters its 17th year, it's clear that abuses of power by one administration lead to abuses by the next.

Maha Hilal

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“General Strike, F*ck This Country”: Talking Politics and Punk With Jawbreaker’s Blake Schwarzenbach

The guitarist and singer of the legendary band discusses politics, poetry, Palestine and antifascism.

Sarah Lazare

Feature

Why Democrats and Movements Need Each Other

The Democrats are not just gaining voters. They are gaining activists determined to transform the party.

Frances Fox Piven and Lorraine C. Minnite

Culture

Four New Books for the Biosphere

Venture into the woods this autumn with books from Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, Nate Blakeslee, Ashley Dawson and Gleb Raygorodetsky.

In These Times Staff

Labor

Activists in Puerto Rico Want the Jones Act Eliminated—So Why Are Unions Defending It?

Kate Aronoff

Labor

University of Chicago Grad Students, After Being Told Their Labor Isn’t Work, Vote on Union

Daniel Moattar