The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Congress Wants to Give Trump a Bipartisan Blank Check for Declaring War

Presidents have been declaring war by executive fiat. A new bill to replace the AUMF would rubber stamp it.

Danny Sjursen

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