The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
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Video: Can Kamala Harris Find Voters In Dearborn?
"People here have families that are originally from the exact towns and villages that are being bombed with American weapons."
Afeef Nessouli
Election 2024
It's Trump
The Associated Press called the election for Trump Wednesday morning.
In These Times Staff
Departments
The Child Tax Credit Is Great For Parents And For Turning Out The Vote
During the pandemic, an expanded Child Tax Credit provided material relief for working families. Congress let the measure expire, but it remains popular with voters.
J. Patrick Patterson
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Pro-Palestine Student Activists at HBCUs Are Divided on How to Vote
In North Carolina and Georgia, some say they are casting a vote to save our democracy while others say they are withholding theirs to save the world.
Alexis Wray
Viewpoint
On Losing a Loved One to Alzheimer's—and Trumpism
I saw in my dying grandfather Trump’s ideal follower—and right-wing media’s ideal viewer.
Maximillian Alvarez
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It's Not Too Late for Kamala Harris to Earn Votes Like Mine
Harris can win thousands of votes across the country, including in key swing states, by calling for an arms embargo.
Saqib Bhatti
Comics
Trump Hulk Smash Democracy!
New election and cease-fire comics, curated by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Matt Bors
Niccolo Pizarro, Jen Sorensen, Brian McFadden and Tom Tomorrow
Trump’s Plan to Deport Millions of Immigrants Would Be a Nightmare for Workers and the Economy
Mass deportations could spike inflation, lower the GDP and lead to massive job losses for U.S.-born workers.
David Dyssegaard Kallick and Daniel Costa
ViewpointCultureDepartments
The Ways We Show Up After November 5
My sights are set on lifting up art that pushes for a world with disability justice and abolition and queer liberation, a future in which Palestine and Sudan and the Congo are free.
Sherell Barbee
PalestineElection 2024
Uncommitted Co-Founder Says Trump Is "Preying on the Pain of Arab and Muslim American Voters"
Abbas Alawieh says he will vote for Harris "as a Democratic strategist and as someone who’s in a swing state," but is "still terrified by the vacuum that she’s leaving."
In These Times Staff
DispatchRural America
Not in Our Nursing Homes
In Wisconsin, seniors are leading the charge to protect their own healthcare.
George Goehl
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Project for the Old American Century
What Harris’ embrace of the Cheneys tells us about Democrats’ worldview.
Alberto Toscano
Labor
Waffle House Workers, At the Front Lines of Disasters, Demand More
The 24-hour chain famously stays open come hell or high water (inspiring FEMA’s Waffle House Index), but pays workers as little as $3 an hour.
Kim Kelly
Interview
Refusing to be Forgotten in Environmental Sacrifice Zones
Ohioans from East Palestine and Toledo are still imagining and fighting for a healthier future, free from toxic waste and poisoned water.
Maximillian Alvarez
DispatchRural America
Can Native Voters Carry Montana?
From Billings to Fort Peck, organizers are working to register Indigenous voters—and believe they might shift the needle.
Joseph Bullington
Labor
Reagan Was a Disaster for the Labor Movement. A Second Trump Term Could Be Worse.
The Right has given us plenty of indications of the dangers a second Trump term could pose to labor. To see how bad things might get, we can look to another example of a brutally anti-labor presidency: Ronald Reagan’s.
Chris Bohner
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“The Children,” James Baldwin Wrote, “Are Always Ours, Every Single One of Them"
Saqib Bhatti laments the unbearable task of parenting during genocide—from the United States to Gaza.
Saqib Bhatti
ViewpointElection 2024
Democrats Don't Need a Coach, They Need a Teacher
The choice to campaign as "Coach" Walz may be as tactically bankrupt as it is morally so: if Americans truly want an American football coach, isn’t that the "you're fired" persona Trump already embodies?
Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva
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