The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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Shaky Ground: How the United States Uses the Law to Steal Indigenous Land

A review of Peter d’Errico’s Federal Anti-Indian Law: The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples, an indictment of a legal system with the unflinching goal of stealing as much land as possible.

Stephanie Woodard

LaborFeature

Brightly Colored Bandages and Bags of Ice: Meatpacking Workers Say Tyson Foods Makes Them Fight to See the Doctor

The in-house medical care at Tyson Foods allegedly conceals injuries, throwing what it’s like to be a meatpacking worker in the United States into sharp relief.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborFeatureEn Español

Los Empacadores de Carne Dicen que Tyson Foods los hace Luchar para ir al Doctor

El equipo médico interno en Tyson Foods presuntamente oculta las lesiones, mostrando la difícil realidad de ser empacador de carne en los Estados Unidos.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborFeature

Can Iowa Meatpacking Workers Take on Tyson?

The essential workers who fought for their lives during the pandemic are now fighting for a union.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborFeatureEn Español

Los Empacadores de Carne Podrán Enfrentarse a Tyson?

Los trabajadores esenciales que lucharon por sus vidas tras la pandemia ahora están luchando por un sindicato.

Luis Feliz Leon

Viewpoint

As Mayor, Brandon Johnson Should Establish a Public Bank in Chicago

Chicago’s working-class neighborhoods have been exploited by predatory financial institutions and starved of desperately needed investment. Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson could change that by creating a public bank.

Saqib Bhatti

Labor

10 Years After the Rana Plaza Collapse, Has Anything Changed?

The deaths of 1,100 workers sparked reforms in Bangladesh’s garment industry. But problems persist, especially for those disabled in the collapse.

Piyas Biswas

Rural America

Inside the Government’s Failing Program to Protect Farmworkers

Fifty years ago, the U.S. created a program to protect farmworkers from dangerous housing, wage theft and other rampant abuse. Internal documents show a failing system.

Johnathan Hettinger and Sky Chadde

LaborDispatch

An Explosion, Layoffs, and the End of Paper in Jay

When the Androscoggin Mill closed last month, it ended 130 years of paper making in this small, tight-knit town.

Jacob Morrison

LaborViewpoint

This Is How It Spreads

The raw ingredients are finally in place for the labor movement to plant its seeds everywhere.

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

The Supreme Court Needs Term Limits. Clarence Thomas Is Proof.

If Supreme Court justices can be bought by billionaires, lifetime terms only enable corruption.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Dispatch

Bengaluru’s Sanitation Workers Say No to the System’s Scraps

If the city’s ragpickers and pourakarmikas stopped working for even a day, Bengaluru would plunge into disease and chaos.

Srikar Raghavan

In These Times Remembers Staughton Lynd, Peter Marcuse, Paul Schrade and Eric Werthman

While thanking our supporters in the May 2023 issue, we also remember those who are no longer with us and are honored to recognize several of our champions who passed away in 2022.

In These Times Editors

Labor

Insurance Companies are Destroying New York's Home Care Industry

“Year after year, they’ve been pocketing money meant for home care workers.”

Lily Meyersohn

Viewpoint

Is the War in Yemen Coming to an End?

"[This is] the closest Yemen has been to real progress towards lasting peace."

Shireen Al-Adeimi

Interview

The Three Stages of the Church of Trump

Jeff Sharlet on how the cult of Trump metastasizes.

Sarah Posner

Labor

“We’re Calling Bullshit”: Why Museum Workers Keep Unionizing

In Philadelphia and across the country, the movement to organize cultural workers just keeps growing.

Mindy Isser

ViewpointRural America

How Old Oil Wells Become Taxpayers' Problem

Nationwide, oil companies have abandoned more than a million oil and gas wells—and the cost of cleaning them up.

Jonathan Thompson