The Right-Wing Issue
Queer Louisianans Are Fighting Book Bans—And Winning
“They say their goal is just to get rid of pornographic books, but in no place has it ever stopped there.”
Katie Jane Fernelius
Moms Against Fascism
LGBTQ parents in Southern California are fighting queerphobic hate with “a fuckton of spray paint” and “Know your Local Fascist” zines.
Dayton Martindale
The Fascist Movement’s Biggest Threat: Labor Unions?
An interview with Paul Ortiz on how unions have fought Gov. Ron Desantis’ reactionary rule—and unions as an anti-fascist force.
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Conservatives Want to Destroy Public Schools. Communities are Fighting Back.
“The decision to hate your neighbors and reject your public school isn’t actually the most affordable, practical or preferable path for most people.”
Jennifer Berkshire
National Conservatives, Postliberals and the Nietzschean Right: Meet Today’s Terrifying GOP
The New Right is mad, organized and wholly unafraid to wield state power.
Matt McManus
How Colleges Became Recruitment Hubs for the Gen-Z Right
Right-wing Zoomers are outflanking their MAGA elders in enthusiastic embrace of radically anti-democratic, exclusionary and bigoted beliefs.
Ben Lorber
We’re in an Epidemic of Right-Wing Terror. Won’t Someone Tell the Press?
More than a decade of media malpractice enabled January 6. Has the media learned its lesson?
Rick Perlstein
Republicans Can’t Stop Lying About Their Base
Party of the People exemplifies Republicans’ populist bait and switch.
Sarah Posner
Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Right
What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?
Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet
The Right is Prepared For This Moment. Are We?
A conversation between Jamelle Bouie, Alex Han, Nancy MacLean, Tarso Luís Ramos and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on the Left’s role in fighting the Right.
Jamelle Bouie, Alex Han, Nancy MacLean, Tarso Luís Ramos and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Can Comics Fight the Right? We're Going to Try, Anyway.
History Didn’t Begin on Oct. 7
Here’s what the press gets wrong on Palestine.
In These Times Editors and Hussein Ibish
2023 Was the Year of Anti-Trans Hysteria
23 states passed laws targeting trans youth, with implications for us all.
Heron Greenesmith
Israel’s Brutality Is Stoking the Imagination of India's Far Right
As the genocide in Gaza continues, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking notes.
Aparna Gopalan
The Right's Persecution of Palestine Supporters Looks a Lot Like a New Red Scare
Workers have been fired. Students have lost job offers. Activists have been harassed. But you can’t bully a movement into silence.
Nashwa Bawab
The Rise of the Far Right Is a Global Phenomenon
Facing a planetary wave of far-right authoritarianism, from Italy’s Giorgia Meloni to Argentina’s Javier Milei, the Left must learn to “organize despair.”
Alberto Toscano
WE NEED TO BE UNITED IN THE FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM AND REPRESSION
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