The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Culture
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Examining Britain’s Populist Revolt
David Goodhart's The Road to Somewhere goes nowhere worth following.
Jane Miller

Culture
The Return of Nunsploitation
Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours is a clever update on Boccaccio's The Decameron.
Michael Atkinson

Feature
How Black Communities Across the Country Are Retaking Land and Demanding Reparations
A conversation with Chinyere Tutashinda of the BlackOUT Collective.
Sarah Jaffe

Feature
Trump’s Dangerous Love Affair With the Saudi Royal Family
How our new commander in chief is intensifying the U.S.-Saudi "special friendship" that's destabilizing the Middle East.
William D. Hartung

Feature
Shutting Out the Public from the Senate Healthcare Bill Isn’t Just Antidemocratic: It’s Deadly.
These lethal policies would never pass through an accountable, participatory public process.
Ben Palmquist

Feature
Greek Squatters Transformed a Deserted Hotel Into a Sanctuary for Refugees. Now, They Face Eviction.
The left-wing Syriza government is cracking down on squats that house thousands of migrants in Athens.
Patrick O. Strickland

Rural America
Understanding the True Cost of American Food (Part I)
John Ikerd

Labor
Retirement of Boomer Business Owners Could Leave Millions Jobless—Unless Workers Take Over
Alexander Kolokotronis

Feature
“I Question America”: On Juneteenth, Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony About Racist Brutality
Hamer’s speech to the 1964 Democratic National Convention still rings true.
In These Times Staff

Feature
The Fight Against the California Democratic Establishment Has Only Just Begun
Kimberly Ellis lost her bid for the chair of the California Democratic Party, but that has not stopped her fighting spirit.
Theo Anderson

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Armed U.S. Agents Just Raided a Humanitarian Aid Center in the Arizona Borderlands
'No More Deaths' says unprecedented invasion has compromised life-saving operations on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Sarah Lazare

Dispatch
Done Waiting for the Mule: Black Activists Seek To Occupy 40 Acres of Land this Juneteenth
In cities across the country, organizers for "Black Land and Liberation" are preparing to reclaim vacant spaces.
Aviana Willis

Feature
Don’t Blame the Left for Political Violence in America: The Problem Lies with the Right
Attempts to place blame on left-wing movements aren't just wrong—they overlook the real scourge of racist violence.
Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature
This Father’s Day, Recognizing the Dads Who Are Left Out, Locked Up and Fighting for Their Families
For dads in the crosshairs of systemic oppression, the work of parenting often goes underappreciated.
Brooke Anderson

Labor
A Day in the Life of a Day Laborer
Stephen Franklin

Rural America
Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Have Been Duped into Producing Too Much Milk
Jim Goodman

Viewpoint
If the European Left Doesn’t Step Up to Take on Capitalism, the Right Will Pounce
The left must respond to the economic crisis to defeat the right-wing lurch towards nationalism and racism.
Conn Hallinan

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Winning Power and Advancing a Radical Agenda Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
This year’s People's Summit shows it’s not enough to have good ideas. The left needs a strategy to win.
Kate Aronoff
