The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Labor
Offshoring Solidarity: How Call-Center Workers Are Organizing Across Borders
Dan DiMaggio
Feature
The Problem With Centrism Is That It Might Get Us All Killed
Going ‘back to the center’ and curbing climate change are mutually exclusive.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
Can Indiana Be the Stronghold of the Resistance? This Organizer Thinks So.
Jesse Myerson is one of many trying to build a new progressive base in the country's heartland.
Sarah Jaffe
Feature
London’s Grenfell Disaster is An Indictment of Austerity
The fire’s victims were caught in the crosshairs of public cuts and a housing crisis.
Amar Diwakar
Culture
The Frustrating Yet Beautiful Drama of “A Ghost Story”
Filmmaker David Lowery's latest is slow, but contains a few genuine spiritual ideas.
Michael Atkinson
Feature
The Police State Can Come After Trump Protesters, But It Can’t Make Them Cooperate
Facing up to 75 years in prison, 135 Inauguration Day protesters are refusing to collaborate with the prosecution.
Sarah Lazare
Labor
As Universities are Gutted, Grad Student Employee Unions Can Provide a Vital Defense
Sabeen Ahmed
Culture
Squatters’ 60-Year War Against Private Property
How propertied classes team up with the state to forcibly evict urban squatters.
Margaret Garb
Feature
‘I Must Mourn’: Frederick Douglass on the Meaning of July 4th to the Slave
These words, spoken in 1852, are relevant to modern U.S. society mired in the legacies of slavery and racist brutality.
Frederick Douglass
Rural America
Reprieve for an Ancient Site: A Mining Company and a Tribe Find a Way to Work Together
Stephanie Woodard
Feature
Meet the Activists Still Fighting the Anti-Woman Legacy of Bill Clinton’s Welfare Reform
Why welfare activists are throwing their weight behind the RISE Out of Poverty Act.
Sarah Jaffe
Labor
If Ben & Jerry’s Is Progressive, Why Won’t It Protect Its Farmworkers?
Michael Arria
Feature
What the Single-Payer Loss Reveals About the Role of Corporate Money in California Politics
The chair of the California Democratic Party’s progressive caucus explains how it went down.
Theo Anderson
Dispatch
Detroit’s Underground Economy: Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root
Over decades of poverty, Detroiters have fostered a resilient informal economy based on trust.
Valerie Vande Panne
Feature
5 Roadblocks to Reform in Chicago’s Police Union Contract
Critics say the city's agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police makes it more difficult to investigate and punish abuses.
In These Times and City Bureau
Labor
GM To Colombian Workers Injured On the Job: You’re On Your Own
Bruce Vail
Feature
Trump Is Trying to Make NAFTA Even Worse. It’s Time to Throw Sand in the Gears.
Many on the Left have been deeply critical of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) since before it was fast-tracked into law by former President Bill Clinton in 1994. Now, President Donald Trump’s current plan to renegotiate NAFTA is poised to make the massive trade deal even worse.
Ethan Earle
Rural America
Jane Kleeb, Nebraska Democratic Party Chair, on How to Overcome the Rural-Urban Divide
Rural America In These Times
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