The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

In Chicago, Bernie Sanders Spells Out His Theory of Political Revolution

In two separate events, Sanders lays out his vision of change from the bottom up, and why mobilizing the American people is key to enacting progressive policies.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

What Life on Minimum Wage Actually Looks Like in 2016

Peter Van Buren

Rural America

An Army of Ocean Farmers: On the Frontlines of the Blue-Green Economic Revolution

Bren Smith

Labor

The Philanthropic Hypocrisy of Eli Broad, Billionaire and Leading Education Reformer

Ignacio Thomas

Feature

Bernie Sanders Is Narrowing the Gap in South Carolina

He has an enthusiastic field campaign and growing support from black activists and politicians. Will it be enough?

David Moberg

Culture

‘London Has Fallen’ and the 9/11-ization of Entertainment

The sequel to 'Olympus Has Fallen' shows our ever-more-extravagant taste for destruction

Michael Atkinson

Feature

Bernie Sanders Still Has a Path to Victory. Here It Is.

The media says Clinton is inevitable (again), but the battle for delegates could be closer than anyone expects

Christopher Hass

Feature

‘Bravo!’ Email Appears To Show Clinton’s Friend Congratulating Her on Bombing of Libya

The newly released email from Anne-Marie Slaughter belies Clinton's attempts to distance herself from the military intervention

Branko Marcetic

Labor

Trade Deals Like the TPP Are Murdering American Manufacturing

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Labor

Saying Union Was a Wing of Management, Flight Attendants Launched a Rebellion on Facebook—And Won

Dan DiMaggio

Feature

Bernie Sanders in 1995: A Brutal Assessment of Bill Clinton’s First 2 Years as President

In this 1995 column for In These Times, Bernie Sanders laments then-President Bill Clinton's ties to corporate money—and lays out a progressive program that looks strikingly similar to his own 2016 presidential platform.

Bernie Sanders

Rural America

Our Daily Poison: How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick

Marie-Monique Robin

Labor

Silicon Valley Firm Learns That Wage Theft Doesn’t Count as “Innovation”

Brian Joseph

Feature

When Asked Whether He Was A Socialist in 1989, Carl Sagan Sounded a Lot Like Bernie Sanders in 2016

Carl Sagan is best known for bringing attention to the cosmos. But in this clip from CNN, he puts the spotlight on how the Unites States fails to take care of its own most vulnerable citizens.

Madeline Wensel

Comics

Magical Negro: The Gathering

Matt Bors

Feature

Exxon Covered Up Climate Change in the 1970s, But Its Behavior Today is Worse

The biggest fossil fuel company on Earth insists on finding and producing more fossil fuels

Bill McKibben

Culture

The Limits of New Dealism and Why We Need a New Progressive Theory of Political Economy

Historian Jefferson Cowie argues that the New Deal may have been a freak occurrence

Rich Yeselson

Feature

DeRay Mckesson’s Baltimore Mayoral Run Has a Teach For America Problem

The media's favorite poster child for Black Lives Matter, DeRay Mckesson, came up through the school privatization movement's favorite organization

Drew Franklin, AlterNet