The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Rural America

Colorado Community Rights Amendment Builds Largest Campaign to Date, But Falls Short of 2016 Ballot

Rural America In These Times

Labor

A Message To Democrats: ‘Working Class’ Is Not a Dirty Word

Tamara Draut

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Done at the DNC. But She’s Not the Only Obstacle To Party Unity.

Divisions within the Democratic Party take center stage at this week's convention.

Kate Aronoff

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Inside the Corporate Utopias Where Capitalism Rules and Labor Laws Don’t Apply

Our reporters gained access to three of the world’s “special economic zones”—and found paradises for corporations and wastelands for workers’ rights.

Matt Kennard and Claire Provost

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Superdelegate Showdown: Round One Goes to the Democratic National Committee

Democratic Party activists lost at the Rules Committee meeting, but garnered enough support to take their fight to abolish superdelegates to the floor of the convention.

Kate Aronoff

Rural America

Rural Stories Making Headlines (July 23, 2016)

Rural America In These Times

Labor

Why Black Lives Matter Is Taking On Police Unions

Adeshina Emmanuel

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Activists Push the Democrats for Real Solutions on Climate Change

The Democrats' climate platform beats the Republicans', but it doesn't go far enough.

Kate Aronoff

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Trump Has Concocted a Dangerous New Blend of Pseudo-Leftism and Nativist Populism

The RNC showed Republicans are moving in a new, and frightening, direction.

Theo Anderson

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Is Hillary Clinton a Progressive? Not If She Chooses Tim Kaine

By choosing Tim Kaine as her vice president, Clinton signaled that she values progressives in name and vote only.

Jodi Jacobson

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Yale Worker Who Shattered Racist Window: ‘People are Tired of Being Victims’

Corey Menafee tells In These Times what brought him to the breaking point.

Michelle Chen

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U.S.-Led Airstrikes Just Killed 85 Syrian Civilians—And the Corporate Media Looked Away

More died than in last week's Nice, France attack, but far fewer words were written.

Adam Johnson

Labor

Wall Street Vultures May Have Wrecked the Central States Pension Fund

Bruce Vail

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Ted Cruz’s Speech Was the Final Sign of the GOPocalypse

The party of Lincoln is going up in flames--and embracing it.

Chris Lehmann

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‘Make America Great Again’ Is All That’s Left Holding the GOP Together

Donald Trump’s shallow slogan also shows his strength.

Theo Anderson

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Anti-Trump Activists Form a Human Wall Outside the RNC

Pro-immigrant groups and other progressive protesters rebuke the Republican nominee.

Joshua Alvarez

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Ghostbusters Is a Classic Summer Escape Film—But From Misogyny

Your ticket buys a joyful romp and a 1-hour, 45-minute break from sexism

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

The Republicans Just Passed a Platform That Would Eviscerate Workers’ Rights

Victoria Albert