The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Inmate Firefighters Are on the Frontlines of Fighting the West Coast’s Wildfires

George Lavender

Labor

Workers at Trump Taj Mahal Begin Preparations for Strike

Mario Vasquez

Labor

New York City Women, Firefighters of Color Continue Decades-Long Battle To Integrate the FDNY

Ari Paul

Feature

A New Plan for American Cities To Free Themselves of Wall Street’s Control

Arbitrary financial fees are sucking cities and states dry. But they can change the terms if they band together and bargain collectively.

Saqib Bhatti

Rural America

Five Ways Pope Francis Can Overcome the Irony that Threatens Laudato Si’

Libby Comeaux

Labor

NLRB Decision Could Mean Excellent News for Fast Food and Other Low-Wage Workers

David Moberg

Viewpoint

Why Bernie Sanders Will Win This Election—Even If He Doesn’t Win the White House

American voters are mad as hell, and the rise of Sanders shows that they're not going to take it anymore.

Theo Anderson

Feature

10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans’ All-Charter School System Has Proven a Failure

Test scores tell one story, and residents tell another. A three-month investigation by In These Times reveals the cracks in the education reform narrative.

Colleen Kimmett

Labor

IKEA Says It’s “Socially Responsible.” So Why Are Workers Accusing It of Union-Busting?

Bruce Vail

Labor

Behind the Business Attire, Many Bank Workers Earn Poverty Wages

Mario Vasquez

Labor

UE Organizing Director Bob Kingsley Prepares To Step Down, But Lefty Union Shows No Signs of Slowing

Bruce Vail

Labor

Home Care Workers Could Soon See a Major Raise In Their Wages

David Moberg

Feature

Appalachia’s Coal Industry is Collapsing—But the Mountains Aren’t Coming Back

The fall of West Virginia's coal mono-industry leaves the area without its peaks and forests. Only an uncertain future remains.

Laura Gottesdiener

Labor

‘The Teacher Shortage’ Is No Accident—It’s the Result of Corporate Education Reform Policies

Kevin Prosen

Labor

McDonald’s Workers Take Fight for $15 to Brazil, Accuse Company of “Cannibal Capitalism”

David Moberg

Rural America

Rural Spain: The Challenge for Podemos, the Country’s New Left

Tomás de León Sotelo

Labor

Chicago Parents Enter Week 2 of Hunger Strike Protesting Corporate Ed Reform and Dyett HS Closure

Yana Kunichoff

Feature

Selling Off New Orleans: Gentrification and the Loss of Community 10 Years After Katrina

How long-time residents feel about the new Louisiana purchase

Fatima Shaik