The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Housing

BREAKING: Seattle Defies Landlord Lobby, Votes to Fund Social Housing

Despite a deluge of corporate cash, the measure to fund an ambitious plan for mixed-income, publicly owned housing appears to have won big.

Rebecca Burns

Investigation

Hearing: New Haven Testifies On Its Mold Crisis

Less than two months after an In These Times investigation on the nation’s unrecognized mold health care crisis, one city at its center shows signs of taking action.

Thomas Birmingham

LaborViewpoint

Amid Lots of Bad News for Working People, a Win in New Orleans Offers Hope

The Workers' Bill of Rights—supported by more than 80% of voters—is the latest tool to reduce labor exploitation.

Sarah Jaffe

Culture

Detty December Brings Euphoria and Hope for Ghana’s Future

President John Mahama’s re-election gave some Ghanaians "cautious optimism" during the festival season.

Ernest Ankomah and Emmanuel Kwame Sarpong

Labor

After Gaza Cease-fire, the Labor Movement Isn’t Done Fighting for Palestinian Freedom

Networks of U.S. union organizers are calling for an end to a system of apartheid in Israel and cessation of all armed conflict in the region.

Jeff Schuhrke

LaborInterview

This Labor Leader Who Nearly Unseated a GOP Senator Wants More Working-Class Candidates to Run

Dan Osborn ran as an independent in Nebraska and came close to ousting a two-term Republican incumbent. He’s not done taking on the billionaire class.

Steve Early

PalestineInterview

Our Fight Doesn’t End at Cease-Fire

A conversation with pro-Palestine organizers looking towards the next phase of struggle: disrupting the flow of U.S. weapons to Israel.

Nashwa Bawab

DispatchPolitics

You Are Invited to the Predators' Ball, as Food

At Trump’s second inauguration, no one wanted to admit they were the suckers.

Hamilton Nolan

Comics

Delay, Deny, Decry

Comics for a Dysfunctional Healthcare System

Kendra Wells, Jen Sorensen, Tom Tomorrow and Mattie Lubchansky

ViewpointPolitics

Looking for the Resistance

The true believers came out to the People's March in D.C., but a mass movement against Trump 2.0 failed to materialize.

Hamilton Nolan

ViewpointPalestine

The Gaza Cease-fire Is a Major Step—But the Fight for Palestine Must Continue

After 15 months of carnage, a cease-fire agreement offers a desperately needed respite. There are many obstacles, yet the movement to stop U.S. support for Israel goes on.

Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith

InvestigationPolitics

Trump's Greenland Problem

As the president-elect's call to buy—or take—a sovereign country moves from punchline to possibility, a look at the real stakes of the Arctic’s mounting cold war.

Adam Federman

ViewpointPalestine

A Cease-fire in Gaza: Healing Wounds Will Take Years—and Much More

A cease-fire in Gaza is hope, and hope will help Gaza heal and rebuild.

Yousef Aljamal

Culture

The Artist and the Ukrainian Front

Zhanna Kadyrova ponders the role of art in war—and finds new meaning in bullet-pierced walls.

Matt A. Hanson

Labor

An Award to Sustain the Growing Labor Movement

Why we’re launching the Labor Organizer of the Year Award.

Alex Han

ViewpointPalestine

Has the Fire Ceased?

We will not stop until Palestine is free.

Eman Abdelhadi

Climate

L.A. Activists Put Price-Gouging Landlords on Notice

Tenant organizers see signs of illegal disaster profiteering on Los Angeles rental sites while 100,000 evacuees seek temporary or permanent lodging.

Rebecca Burns

CultureClimate

Killing The Forest For The Trees

Trump intends to reopen the Tongass National Forest to logging. But environmentalists and tribal governments envision a more equitable and sustainable future for Southeast Alaska's economy.

Caroleine James