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The Grooming Gap: What “Looking the Part” Costs Women

If women don’t conform to beauty expectations, they’re paid less.

Mindy Isser

Rural America

The Deforestation of the Amazon Was Named the ‘Statistic of the Decade’

Liberty Vittert

Feature

Our 15 Most Read Stories of 2019

Throughout the tumultuous past 12 months, In These Times has been there every step of the way. Here are our most popular stories of 2019.

In These Times Editors

Feature

Impeachment Trial Will Take Sanders and Warren Off the Campaign Trail

The campaigns have plans, but some supporters worry Biden and Buttigieg will get an edge in Iowa.

Will Kang

Rural America

The Little Shell Tribe of Montana Just Got Federal Recognition. Why Did It Take So Long?

Gabriel Furshong

Rural America

Coffee, Avocados, Chocolate and Other Foods Climate Change Could Take Off The Menu

Pat Thomas

Viewpoint

Fox News, Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda

For nearly a quarter of American adults, Fox News is their only cable news source. It tells them what Trump wants them to hear.

Joel Bleifuss

Dispatch

Using Roleplaying To Imagine Life Under a Green New Deal—Dungeons & Dragons Style

Instead of wizards and clerics, Iowans are envisioning roles like community planners and memory stewards, in an environmentally and economically just society.

Gavin Aronsen

Feature

Buttigieg Is Shocked, Shocked at McKinsey’s Transgressions. But It Was Notorious When He Joined It.

McKinsey was embroiled in a nationwide scandal over helping insurance companies squeeze customers.

Branko Marcetic