The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Rural America

Rural Stories Making Headlines (August 13, 2017)

Emeline Posner

Feature

Everything TransCanada Didn’t Want Nebraska’s Regulators To Know About Keystone XL

Tribes and other anti-pipeline advocates say Big Money may have kept Nebraska's public service commission from hearing the whole story.

Kate Aronoff

Feature

The U.S.-Occupied Colony In the Crosshairs of Trump’s Reckless Brinkmanship with North Korea

Guam's residents do not get to vote for U.S. president, but they are directly impacted by Trump's dangerous threats.

Carlos Ballesteros

Rural America

Don’t Be Fooled by the Limelight on Lifestyle as a Cancer Risk

Laura Orlando

Culture

Judginess Built the Middle Class

A new book explores the 19th-century origins of middle-class respectability—and the misfits kept out of the club.

Margaret Garb

Feature

Generals and Cops Trained by the Pentagon Are Staging Coups All Over the World

U.S. trained and educated officers are toppling governments and expanding American proxy power.

Nick Turse

Culture

Heart of Whiteness: The Stories Western Philanthropists Tell Themselves

Why do Western efforts to help the environment and Africa so often fail?

Laura Orlando

Labor

Elon Musk May Be a “Visionary,” But His Vision Doesn’t Seem To Include Unions

Michael Arria

Labor

A Working-Class Strategy for Defeating White Supremacy

Gabriel Kristal

Introducing the New In These Times

A new magazine for new times.

Joel Bleifuss

Labor

Investigation: Illinois’ Wage Theft Bill Actually Made Things Worse

Melissa Sanchez and Matt Kiefer

Feature

Trump Promised to Revive Keystone XL—But TransCanada May Not Even Want to Build It Anymore

The fate of the Keystone XL Pipeline will be decided in hearings this week in Lincoln, Nebraska, but one question remains unanswered.

Kate Aronoff

Feature

The Athletes, the Street Artists, the Troublemakers and the Ones Who Say “No”

Excavating the revolutionary history of the Southwest Youth Collaborative.

Page May

Rural America

Youngstown Residents Push to Oust Corporations from Election Campaigns, Cap Contributions at $100

Rural America In These Times

Dispatch

Diverse, Radical and Ready to Resist: Meet the First in the New Wave of Local Progressive Officials

At Local Progress's 150-person meet-up, left-leaning politicians from around the country share plans to build rebel cities.

Steve Early

Feature

Unpredictable and Brutal ICE Raids Are Allowing Trump to Rule by Fear

Protections for immigrant communities were already meager. Now, safeguards are being scrapped as the Trump administration escalates nationwide sweeps.

Michelle Chen

Labor

Raising the Minimum Wage Is Not the End Goal—We Need to Challenge Capital Itself

Richard D. Wolff

Feature

The First Priority for the Resurgent U.S. Socialist Movement? Single-Payer Healthcare

At DSA's overflowing national convention, socialized medicine was front and center.

Miles Kampf-Lassin