The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Feature
The Rising American Student Movement Is Part of a Battle for the Soul of Higher Education
Keep an eye on college campuses. The battles fought there are going to matter for the wider world tomorrow.
Aviva Chomsky
Labor
Progressive Nonprofits That Oppose the New Overtime Rules for Low-Income Workers Are Hypocrites
Ethan Miller
Feature
Life After Coal in Harlan County, U.S.A.
Kentucky's lifeblood is drying up.
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein
Rural America
The Rural Healthcare Crisis: Why Obamacare Needs to Cure Itself…and Soon
John Collins
Labor
The Verizon Strike Is Not Just About Wages. It Is About Power and Domination Over Workers.
Alex Gourevitch
Feature
One of the Inventors of Superdelegates Explains Why They Were Created: To Stop ‘Outlier Candidates’
A member of the 1982 commission explains why they created superdelegates and what they hoped to prevent.
Branko Marcetic
Rural America
Big Oil Plots to Exclude Public from Public Land Auctions
Steve Horn
Labor
Can Labor Learn from Silicon Valley?
Michelle Chen
Feature
Norman Finkelstein’s ‘The Holocaust Industry’ and the Fight To Make All Suffering Count
Finkelstein's book is a call for Jewish suffering to be seen as part of the larger history of suffering under colonialism.
Max Ajl
Labor
This New Rule Will Make Information About On-the-Job Injuries at Dangerous Workplaces Public
Elizabeth Grossman
Feature
How to Make the Democratic Nominating Process Actually Democratic
A Sanders campaign advisor lays out 3 proposals.
Larry Cohen
Rural America
Running for Governor
Mark Twain
Labor
“We’re Not Paid Enough”: Cafeteria Workers at Walt Disney World Say They Want a Union
Michael Arria
Labor
The Verizon Strike Is Now In Its Second Month, and the Stakes Are Higher Than Ever
Shaun Richman
Feature
Hunting the Hunt Commission
The private meetings that led to the creation of superdelegates have never been published or made public—until now.
In These Times Contributors
InvestigationGoodman Institute
The Secret History of Superdelegates
In July, 712 Democratic officials will decide the nomination—just as the party planned it.
Branko Marcetic
Rural America
Watch Your Language: Good Food Words Co-opted by Big Ag
Melody Morrell
Feature
Donald Trump Has More in Common with Microsoft’s Racist Twitter-Bot ‘Tay’ Than Most Human Beings
The American people should take a note from Microsoft and shut down Donald Trump.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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