The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

The Blacklist in ‘Trumbo’ Didn’t Just Restrict Free Speech. It Changed How We Talk About Freedom.

Trumbo misses the opportunity to tell a more faithful, radical narrative of cinema's Red Scare and its resistors.

Andrew Paul

Labor

U.S. To Increase Worker Protection From Deadly Silica Dust for First Time in More Than 40 Years

Elizabeth Grossman

Labor

In Landslide Election, University of Chicago Adjuncts Vote to Form Union

Lauren Kaori Gurley

Viewpoint

The Paris Climate Agreement Sets Ambitious Goals, But Countries Won’t Achieve Them—Without Us

COP21's heart may have been in the right place, but by the numbers, the sum is still climate catastrophe.

Tom Ladendorf

Feature

Artist Molly Crabapple on Refusing Lena Dunham, Sketching Occupy and Achieving Cockroach-Free Hair

Molly Crabapple tells In These Times about her new memoir—and true to form, the interview is no-bullshit in tone and global in scope.

Rachel Luban

Dispatch

These Students Are Leading a Movement for Free College in the United States

At last, real organizing for tuition-free college is taking off in America.

Rebecca Nathanson

Labor

Chicago Teachers Union’s Overwhelming Approval of Strike Shows Power of Bottom-up Organizing

Micah Uetricht

Labor

Where Did the OUR Walmart Campaign Go Wrong?

Peter Olney

Rural America

Veganic: Do Organic Farming and Urban Food Justice Have Room for Animal Rights?

Dayton Martindale