The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

After 41 Years, The Teamsters Reform Movement Is Finally Building Power

Stephen Franklin

Feature

Why Are Socialists Always Talking About the Working Class?

A discussion about class in the 21st century.

In These Times Contributors

Labor

The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists That’s Fighting to Save the EPA

Eli Day

Feature

Ending Deadly Collusion Between U.S. and Israeli Police

A new campaign aims to denormalize human rights abuses as Netanyahu and Trump intensify their alliance.

Alex Kane

Dispatch

Smells Like Environmental Racism

That stench permeating Detroit? It’s other cities’ burning trash.

Valerie Vande Panne

Labor

What It Looks like When Union Members Stand with Black Lives Matter

Chauncey K. Robinson

Rural America

Herbicide Drift: EPA’s Weak Dicamba Regulations Ensure the Damage in 2018 Will be Widespread

Steve Smith

Dispatch

When the Government Orders You to Burn Your Crops

Colombian farmers are a casualty of the war on coca.

Kimberley Brown

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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

Feature

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