The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

Fidel Castro (1926-2016)

A major feature of Fidel Castro’s 47-year-old rule was his manipulation of popular support and the creation of a political system that does not hesitate to use repression, and not only against class enemies, to cement its power.

Samuel Farber

Rural America

Standing Rock Sioux Vow to Ignore Army Corps Eviction Order

Rural America In These Times

Dispatch

Why Fair Scheduling Could Be Labor’s Next Big Fight

A series of citywide ordinances are taking aim at erratic and unpredictable scheduling.

Jonathan Timm

Feature

Fighting the Bosses: 40 Years of In These Times

Without a strong labor movement, there is little hope for socialism—let alone a more humane capitalism.

David Moberg

Rural America

Beneficial Wildlife: The Unsung Heroes of a Balanced Farm Ecosystem

Marie Burcham

Labor

Will Workplace Safety Survive a Trump Presidency?

Elizabeth Grossman

Feature

How an Entitled Clinton and the “Politics of Resentment” Gave Us Trump

Some lessons only become clear with time, but the 2016 election has already taught us a lot about our differences.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Pushing the Democratic Party Left: 40 Years of In These Times

Since 1976, In These Times has pressured Democrats for a more progressive agenda.

Joel Bleifuss

Labor

Trump Vows to Disrupt Trade—Progressives Need to Push Him in the Right Direction

Michelle Chen

Feature

Climate Activists Must Stop Donald Trump at Home—And Go on Offense Abroad

There's no compromising with the far right—but progress can still be made around the world, and at the local and state levels.

Kate Aronoff

Comics

Thanks, Obama.

Matt Bors

Culture

Thomas Friedman’s Latest Book Is a Tour Through His Troubled, Neoliberal Mind

We read 500 pages of corporate platitudes and ungainly metaphor so you don't have to.

Chris Lehmann

Rural America

It’s 395 Years Since the First “Thanksgiving” but at Standing Rock Things Haven’t Changed

John Collins

Video

The Human Face of Illinois’ Ongoing Budget Crisis

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature

On Inauguration Day, Don’t Go to Work. Don’t Buy Anything. We Need A National Strike to Stop Trump.

A call for a national "Sick Out" on Jan. 20, 2017.

Marianne Hastings

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Seizing the Moment: 40 Years of In These Times

Pushing America Left since 1976.

Jessica Stites

Feature

20 Lessons from the 20th Century on How to Survive in Trump’s America

A history professor looks to the past to remind us to do what we can in the face of the unthinkable.

Timothy Snyder

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An Indigenous Organizer at Standing Rock Speaks on Police Repression, Climate Chaos and Donald Trump

The water protectors at Standing Rock are still defiant in opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Dayton Martindale