The Wisconsin Idea
Feature
White Lawmakers Are Using Alabama’s Racist State Constitution To Keep Black Wages Down
Alabama wrote its 1901 constitution to “establish white supremacy.” Workers in a majority-black city say it’s Jim Crow all over again.
Bryce Covert
Labor
What Taxi and Uber Drivers Really Think About the Ride-Sharing Boom
Teke Wiggin
Labor
Harvey Weinstein Revelations Force the Question: Where Was the Screen Actors Guild?
Morgan Spector
Rural America
How Much Nitrate Is in Rural America’s Water?
John Collins
Feature
In CNN’s Tax Debate, Bernie Sanders Showed How Democrats Can Win with Socialism
By offering a bold vision of policies to help working families, Sanders voiced a popular alternative to Ted Cruz and the GOP's barbarism.
Kate Aronoff
Labor
A Case Study in How NAFTA Undermines Strikes
Gerard DiTrolio and Doug Nesbitt
Feature
Trump’s Heritage Foundation Speech Is a Sign of the Coming All-Out War Within the Right
Both factions of the conservative movement want tax cuts for the rich—but the knives are out between the Bannon and GOP establishment wings.
Theo Anderson
Feature
When the Market Went Dark
Thirty years after the crash of ’87 and we’re still at the mercy of a volatile economic system.
In These Times Staff
Culture
An Exhibit on Japanese Internment Shows How Far We Haven’t Come
Racial policy, hate crimes, immigration, civil rights and national security are all themes that continue to reverberate today.
Nora Mabie