The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

In Roma, Alfonso Cuarón Zooms in on Class Tensions

Set in early 1970s Mexico, a new film explores the life of a domestic worker in a middle-class family.

Ilan Stavans

Labor

‘We’re One Union’: Why Chicago Teachers Are Out On the First Charter School Strike in the Country

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Are Pushing a Bold New Plan to Tackle Climate Change

In a livestreamed town hall event, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez laid out the best hope yet to stave off climate disaster and transform our economy: A Green New Deal. And now it's gaining support in Congress.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature

JPMorgan Chase Made a Secret $159.5 Million Deal To Finance a Private Prison

Activists have been pressuring the bank and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, to stop their dealing with the private detention industry.

David Dayen

Feature

Beyond Girl Power: The Answer to the Commodification of Feminism Is a Women-Led Socialist Movement

Liberals are whitewashing feminism and watering down the legacies of socialist women. We mustn't let them rewrite history.

Roqayah Chamseddine

Culture

The Typical Workplace Is a Dictatorship. But It Doesn’t Have To Be.

Socialists and progressives have a variety of ideas to bring democracy into the workplace.

In These Times Editors

Labor

Robert Reich: Break Up Facebook (and, While We’re At It, Google, Apple and Amazon)

Robert Reich

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These LA Activists Are Showing How to Fight Surveillance Under Trump

Racial justice organizers stopped the mayor from expanding an Islamophobic "counter-terrorism" program. They're building a coalition to end all spying on communities of color.

Aviva Stahl

Labor

How Graduate Unions Are Winning—and Scaring the Hell out of Bosses—in the Trump Era

Daniel Moattar