The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

The Hope From Audacity: Fight for $15 Pulls Off “Most Disruptive” Day of Action Yet

David Moberg

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Donald Trump May Be President, But You Can Still Take Action on Climate Change

Individual steps alone won't fix the climate—but they're an easy way to start.

Emily Schwartz Greco

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In the Age of Trump, Progressive Jews Can Learn From the 20th Century’s Radical Yiddish Tradition

Our forebears' struggles against capitalism, fascism and Zionism—carefully chronicled in Revolutionary Yiddishland—resonate more than ever now that the the far right is once more taking power.

Ben Lorber

Labor

Punishing Employers Who Hire Undocumented Immigrants Isn’t the Answer—Solidarity Is

David Bacon

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The Incoherent Worldview and Virulent Islamophobia of Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor

At times, Gen. Michael Flynn has expressed empathy for those who join terrorist groups—but increasingly, he has substituted nuance for rank bigotry.

Branko Marcetic

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America Needs a Network of Rebel Cities to Stand Up to Trump

With Trump in the White House and GOP majorities in the House and Senate, we must look to cities to protect civil liberties and build progressive alternatives from the bottom up.

Kate Shea Baird and Steve Hughes

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Slavoj Zizek: The Left’s Fidelity to Castro-ation

In the last decades, Cuban “socialism” continued to live only because it didn’t yet notice it was already dead.

Slavoj Žižek

Labor

What Paul Krugman Gets Wrong About the Working Class

Jim Naureckas

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Countering Capitalism: 40 Years of In These Times

From independent socialist newspaper to political revolution

Joseph M. Schwartz

Rural America

As Winter Arrives, Gov. Dalrymple Orders a Mandatory, Immediate Evacuation of Water Protectors

Rural America In These Times

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The Woman Who Might Have Been President

It's time to talk about sexism.

Susan J. Douglas

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The Clintons’ Dominance of Democratic Politics Is Over—And They Will Not Be Remembered Fondly

Self-inflicted wounds, an out-of-touch candidate and a party more concerned about Wall Street than the working class sealed the Clinton campaign's defeat.

Kathleen Geier

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Defending the Commons: 40 Years of In These Times

As the corporate assault on the environment grow, so does the movement against it.

Dayton Martindale

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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