The Wisconsin Idea

LaborInterviewPodcast

South Baltimore Residents Have Had Enough of Rail Giant Pollution

Curtis Bay residents rallied at the CSX rail terminal with a simple demand: “We have to remove CSX for the health of our communities.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

Jamaal Bowman’s Loss Does Not Mean That AIPAC Is Winning

The Squad may have lost a key member, but AIPAC has had to drastically narrow its ambitions, targeting the most vulnerable of Israel critics in order to inflate its strength.

Branko Marcetic

Rural America

How U.S. Cities Outsource Their Carbon Emissions to Rural Areas

While the rest of country benefits, rural communities are disproportionately exposed to the pollution caused by power and food production.

Claire Carlson

Viewpoint

The Myth of the "Poll-Driven" Democrat Is Cover for Conservative Policy Preferences

Selective "popularism" is being used by the Democratic Party establishment to pursue reactionary ideological goals.

Adam Johnson

ViewpointIsrael & Palestine

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: We Must Understand Israel as a Settler-Colonial State

"Just as the U.S. celebrates itself as 'a nation of immigrants,' Zionists celebrated Palestine as a land without people for a people without land."

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Departments

LGBT Workers Need Unions, Not Rainbow Capitalism

Major companies are weighing the benefits of pinkwashing as anti-LGBT extremism is on the rise. Doug Ireland's 1999 piece reminds us what organized labor can offer queer and trans workers.

In These Times Editors

Dispatch

“Raid Happening Now”: Scenes from UChicago’s Popular University

“We are the encampment. We’ll be back.”

Eman Abdelhadi

Viewpoint

The Landmark Ruling Against Chiquita Exposes the Failure of Voluntary “Corporate Social Responsibility”

Chiquita’s financing of a Colombian paramilitary group while claiming a reputation as a “responsible corporate citizen” shows the need for robust civil society institutions.

Manpreet Kaur Kalra and Anna Canning

FeatureIsrael & PalestineElection 2024

The Crackdown on Campus Protests is Just Beginning

At least a dozen colleges and universities have changed their policies to make it harder to protest the war on Gaza. More may follow this summer.

Adam Federman