The Wisconsin Idea
Culture
Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Work Couldn’t Come at a Better Time
In Barracoon, published 58 years after her death, the Harlem Renaissance writer interviews the last known survivor of a slave ship.
Lauren Michele Jackson
Labor
Prisoners Are Organizing a Nationwide Strike Against “Modern-Day Slavery”
Michael Arria
Rural America
Farm Crisis: “Without Immediate Government Action, The Days Of The Small Dairy Farm Are Numbered”
Paul Deaton
Labor
Postal Banking Could Become a Reality Even Without Congress. Here’s How.
David Dayen
Viewpoint
Why This Iraq War Vet Is Speaking Out Against Trump’s Reckless Foreign Policy
To expand the anti-war movement, Maggie Martin is connecting struggles against U.S. militarism at home and abroad.
Tanner Howard
Labor
In a National May Day Strike, Puerto Rican Marchers Face Down Tear Gas To Protest Privatization
Kate Aronoff
Culture
What Noam Chomsky Got Right About NAFTA
In 1994, writing for In These Times, Noam Chomsky predicted the trade deal would cause “rural misery and a surplus of labor” and “the fading of meaningful and democratic processes.”
In These Times Editors
Labor
Yes, a Jobs Guarantee Could Create “Boondoggles.” It Also Might Save the Planet.
Kate Aronoff
Labor
Why These Immigrants Are Shutting Their City Down This May Day
Sarah Jaffe