The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Interview

Winning Is Only the Start: Jane McAlevey on Building Worker Power

Veteran organizer Jane McAlevey on the long-game of building union power through contract negotiations.

Paige Oamek

Viewpoint

Biden Is Turning Out to Be More Like Obama Than FDR

After passing stimulus programs and promising a Roosevelt-like administration, President Biden and national Democrats are back to embracing austerity. We deserve better.

Scott Remer

Viewpoint

On CORE’s 15th Anniversary, Reflecting on the Teachers Caucus That Changed Chicago—and the Nation

The Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators was formed in 2008 when a group of educators and union members came together to transform the Chicago Teachers Union. What they would build would end up changing the city—and country—forever.

Jackson Potter

Viewpoint

Republicans Are Now Trying to Defund the Libraries

Claiming to protect children, Republicans are going after libraries and librarians instead of the police, gun manufacturers, and actual child sexual abusers.

Sonali Kolhatkar

ViewpointRural America

How Land Swaps Turn Public Lands into Private Playgrounds

Land exchanges, a management tool used by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, too often benefit rich landowners at the public’s expense.

Erica Rosenberg

Departments

Praxis Makes Perfect

How to stop treating politics like a spectator sport.

Dayton Martindale

Culture

From Illinois to Tennessee, Drag Performers are Resisting Anti-Trans Legislation

An explosion of bans on drag performance and gender-affirming care have surged nationwide. The community is fighting back.

Henry Hicks IV

LaborViewpoint

The War Over No Strike Clauses Has a New Front Line

In Erie, PA, Wabtec workers are poised to fight for the right to strike.

Hamilton Nolan

InterviewPodcast

UPS is Failing Women Workers. Can a Contract Change That?

Women at UPS face unique challenges on the job—and at their union halls.

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

Viewpoint

You Can’t Organize Alone

Political education used to happen in person. We should bring that practice back.

Keisa Reynolds

Viewpoint

The College Board’s Profiteering Should Have No Place in Public Education

The College Board is selling our students' futures. It's just business as usual under racial capitalism.

Kinjo Kiema

Viewpoint

A Billionaire Conserving Montana Is Funding the Group Bulldozing the Atlanta Forest

Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank is helping fund the forces behind Cop City.

Joseph Bullington

LaborInterviewPodcast

Norfolk Southern Won't Clean Up Their Mess Unless We Make Them

“Even early on, I knew it would not be safe to go back home.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Culture

Succession Series Finale: Here Be No Monsters

On Succession and the mobility of capitalism.

Yasmin Nair

Departments

The Fight Continues Against Chicago’s Old Guard

Revisiting Harold Washington's initial challenges after Brandon Johnson's win.

In These Times Editors

Dispatch

The Peasants Are Seizing the Commons (Again)

Protesters stormed a U.K. national park, demanding the freedom to camp anywhere on public land.

Charlotte Elton

Culture

Even Breathing Is Strange: Reflections on the Anniversary of George Floyd’s Murder

A poem and essay on black motherhood—and life.

Cassie Williams

DispatchClimate

Colombian Peasants Are Taking on an Irish Multinational— and Being Met With Violence

Indigenous leaders protesting cardboard packaging giant Smurfit Kappa Group face threats and retaliation.

Tomás Ó’Loingsigh