The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor Organizer of the Year

In These Times Honors Academic Workers

For its vitality and its protection of members against repression, the movement to organize higher education received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards.

Fatima Jalloh

Labor Organizer of the Year

In These Times Honors Starbucks Workers

Starbucks workers received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards for a groundbreaking campaign that is training up a generation of worker-organizers.

Fatima Jalloh

Labor Organizer of the Year

The Indispensability of the Labor Organizer

Why the work of the 2025 Labor Organizers of the Year is so critical.

Nelson Lichtenstein

Feature

Grocery Workers VS Goliath

Kroger and Albertsons tried to merge; union organizing stopped them. But the fight for grocery workers is just beginning.

Sarah Lazare

InterviewPodcast

A Small Texas Town Takes on Crypto Noise Pollution

The massive new Bitcoin mine is part of a plan to fill in Texas’s energy infrastructure—but it comes at the cost of locals’ health.

Maximillian Alvarez

Interview

The Authoritarian State in Miniature

A conversation with author Talia Lavin on Christian Nationalists’ 50-Year Plan to Capture the Country.

Shane Burley

LaborFeature

Against Trump, For the Common Good: What Chicago Teachers Won in Their Latest Contract

The Chicago Teachers Union has long taken on neoliberal Democrats and won. Their latest contract is a victory against the new Trump administration, leaders say.

Kari Lydersen

ClimateRural America

Ahead of Fire and Hurricane Season, FEMA Moves to End a Major Disaster-Preparedness Program

In an internal FEMA memo, the Trump administration announced its plans to dismantle the government’s largest climate adaptation initiative.

Zoya Teirstein and Jake Bittle

"You Are Not Welcome Here:" DHS Plans to Monitor Immigrants' Social Media

Those deemed to have “antisemitic activity” online could be denied green cards and other immigration clearances.

Sharon Zhang

ComicsComics

The World Is Trump's Golf Ball

New comics by Kendra Wells, Mattie Lubchansky, Bianca Xunise and Peter Kuper.

Kendra Wells, Mattie Lubchansky, Bianca Xunise and peter kuper

Culture

The Burning Heart of the World Follows an Armenian Family in Exile

Released on the 50th anniversary of the Lebanese Civil War and the 110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, this heartfelt book weaves humor and love into a wartime coming-of-age story.

Eleanor J. Bader

Politics

She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding.

Diana Greene Foster, who was behind the landmark Turnaway Study, wanted to study the health and economic impacts of the loss of abortion access.

Shefali Luthra, The 19th

ViewpointPolitics

Chris Rufo and the Burger Kings

An extremely online debate reveals fractures in the MAGA coalition and low-status yearnings for a white aristocracy.

Matt McManus

LaborViewpoint

Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.

Kim Kelly

Viewpoint

Robert McChesney Was a Lifelong Fighter for Democratic Media

Let's honor Robert McChesney by continuing his fight for a media free from corporate control.

Dean Baker

LaborViewpoint

Unions Without Strikes

Today's labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.

Hamilton Nolan

Culture

"I feared the door. Someone coming to take my parents away."

Poetry in <i>We Contain Landscapes</i> spotlights a child of formerly undocumented Polish immigrants.

Patrycja Humienik

Labor

National Unions Demand Release of Detained Immigrant Workers

“We have to take actions where we can show that we can win and that help overcome people’s fear.”

Natascha Elena Uhlmann