The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Viewpoint

No Half Measures, We Need Biden to Cancel All Student Loan Debt

The Debt Collective has successfully pushed Biden to extend the pause on student loan payments. Now we’re organizing to make the White House cancel all student debt.

Frederick Bell Jr.

Labor

The New Labor Movement Is Young, Worker-Led and Winning

From Starbucks and Amazon to political campaigns and digital media, workers in historically unorganized occupations are forming unions—and breathing new life into the U.S. labor movement.

Katie Barrows and Ethan Miller

ViewpointRural America

The Food Crisis Didn’t Begin with the War in Ukraine

Even as the failures of industrial agriculture become obvious, U.S. agribusiness aims to force it on the rest of the world.

Jim Goodman

Feature

One Year Ago, Biden Promised to Support Generic Vaccines for the World. That’s Amounted to Nothing.

A conversation with South African public health activist Tian Johnson about outrageous global inequalities in access to Covid vaccines, tests and treatments.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

Abortion Rights Are Workers' Rights

The Supreme Court's striking down of reproductive freedom is an attack on workers everywhere. The labor movement should treat it that way—by taking urgent action.

Kim Kelly

Culture

Chris Hayes on the Cost of Sanctions on Iraq

Sixteen years ago, Chris Hayes weighed the impact sanctions had on the lives of Iraqis. What lessons can we glean from this today?

Christopher Hayes

Departments

Revisiting 1990s Critical Race Theorists

To understand America, we must listen to what Black scholars have been saying about what it means to be white.

In These Times Editors

Viewpoint

Most Price Increases from Inflation Have Gone to Corporate Profits

The inflation panic is causing some Democrats to pivot from social spending to deficit reduction. That's exactly the wrong approach.

Max B. Sawicky

Feature

Yes, Protest Can Influence the Supreme Court

Now is the time to mobilize against the Supreme Court's attack on abortion. History shows it works.

Eric Stoner

Labor

Amazon Workers Decide Not to Form Union at a Second U.S. Facility—But Organizers Pledge to Fight On

One month after making history by organizing the first U.S. Amazon warehouse, workers voted against forming a union at another facility in New York.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborDispatch

New York and California Experiment with Giving Workers a Say in Industry Standards

Less than 3 percent of fast food workers and less than 1 percent of nail salon workers are unionized. Workers' councils could give them a seat at the table.

Amy Qin

Labor

I’m a Black, Queer Woman Working as an Adjunct Professor—And I’m Going on Strike

My story mirrors the lived conditions of Black and brown folks in academia nationwide. It’s time to demand better pay and conditions on the job.

Victoria Collins

Viewpoint

How To Stand in Solidarity with Ukraine

The Left has an opportunity to support the people of Ukraine and connect international struggles, without endorsing American militarism.

Tobita Chow

Labor

Where Are All the “Pro-Worker” Republicans Now?

While employees at Amazon and Starbucks win historic unionization campaigns, the “populist” wing of the GOP has been noticeably silent.

Nick Vachon

Viewpoint

How to Jujitsu the Culture Wars

It's time to make Republicans regret that they ever posed as anti-elites.

Hamilton Nolan

Culture

A New Podcast Opens Portals Into Queer History

"Unboxing Queer History" straddles space and time to explore LGBTQ narratives—from lesbian smelt fishing to gay liberation.

Isabel Carter

Feature

The School Privatization Movement’s Latest Scheme to Undermine Public Education

A wave of bills to install a new form of school vouchers called “education savings accounts” are spreading across the country.

Kalena Thomhave

LaborViewpoint

One Simple Trick to Protect Workers from Inflation

Union contracts could ensure economic stability among the working class amid inflation.

Hamilton Nolan