The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Culture

Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Absurdity of Hope

How Obama and Trump destroyed Ta-Nehisi Coates' faith in racial progress.

Salim Muwakkil

Labor

Trump’s Justice Department Is Trying to Turn Back the Clock on Workers’ Rights 100 Years

Moshe Z. Marvit

Labor

A Trailblazing New Law in Illinois Will Dramatically Expand Temp Workers’ Rights

Jeff Schuhrke

Feature

Trump Chides Puerto Rico Expenses While U.S. Gives $15 Billion a Year to Fossil Fuel Companies

The president's upside-down priorities were on full display during his visit to Puerto Rico on Tuesday.

Kate Aronoff

Culture

The Cradle-to-Grave Coalition

On funerals and socialist revivals.

Jane Miller

Feature

Puerto Rico and Why Climate Reparations Must Know No Borders

U.S. citizenship must not be a litmus test for who deserves to survive the climate crisis.

Sarah Lazare

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