The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

Remembering the Life and Music of Labor Agitator Joe Hill, Who Was Executed 100 Years Ago Today

David Cochran

Feature

What Is Actually Radical About Bernie Sanders’ Democratic Socialism Isn’t the Socialism

It isn't a particularly radical political vision—it's an unflinching commitment to democracy.

Theo Anderson

Viewpoint

The Israeli Occupation Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Boycotting Israel is the best way to save the country from itself.

Marc Daalder

Comics

Hollande’s Unique Response To Paris Attacks: Bomb Shit

Matt Bors

Culture

The Barriers to Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe

The contrasts between the lives of Europeans and the lives of refugees

Jane Miller

Labor

SEIU Endorses Hillary Clinton, But Rank-and-File Activists Say Push for Bernie Sanders Isn’t Over

Mario Vasquez

Viewpoint

Why Slavoj Zizek Is Wrong About the Syrian Refugee Crisis—And Psychoanalysis

A response to Zizek's recent In These Times piece.

Sam Kriss

Feature

Jews Without Money: Toward a Class Politics of Anti-Zionism

Zionism began as class-oriented project within the Jewish community. Opposing it requires a class analysis of who benefits from Zionism within that community.

Benjamin Balthaser

Comics

The GOP Is Responding to ISIS Just as They Wanted

Matt Bors

Rural America

An International Farmers Alliance Links Climate Change to Industrial Agriculture

Rural America In These Times

Labor

IKEA Workers in Massachusetts Walk Out on One Day Strike Amidst Drive to Unionize

Chris Brooks

Culture

Trapped in the Prison of Right-Wing Pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s Paranoid Mind

A stint in the slammer convinced the conservative author that liberals are crooks, as he lays out in his new book Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary and the Democratic Party.

Chris Lehmann

Feature

After Teachers Expose Racist Phonics Curriculum, Minneapolis Schools Cut Contract

Activists said the reading materials were untested, insensitive and clueless.

Sarah Lahm

Viewpoint

What Was Won and Lost in Steven Salaita’s University of Illinois Settlement

Salaita’s settlement is a victory for him and academic freedom. But will we ever know who was watching him—and us?

Marilyn Katz

Labor

Don’t Scapegoat College Football Players for the Underfunding of American Higher Education

Frank Manzo IV

Viewpoint

3 Winners and 3 Losers from the Second Democratic Debate

Parsing the results of the Iowa debate.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Documenting the Rise and Fall of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green Public Housing Projects

A new film traces the history of America's most famous—and infamous—housing projects.

Maya Dukmasova

Labor

How a ‘Right to Your Job’ Law Could Help Unions Fight Back Against ‘Right to Work’

Shaun Richman