The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Coal-State Democrats Push Biden on Silica Rule: What’s the Hold-Up?

The lifesaving rule has been in limbo for 6 months. A recent In These Times investigation named silica as the main culprit in a new surge of black lung deaths.

Kim Kelly

LaborViewpoint

Working Class History Is Happening Before Our Eyes

In These Times Executive Director Alex Han discusses how and why workers are organizing in unprecedented numbers as we speak.

Alex Han

ViewpointInterview

How to Build the Media Our Movements Need

Bhaskar Sunkara, Founding Editor of Jacobin and President of The Nation, and Alex Han, Executive Director of In These Times, on building left media that can fight the Right's propaganda machine.

Alex Han and Bhaskar Sunkara

Rural America

A Farmer’s Almanac for the End of This World

The Earthbound Farmer’s Almanac offers a place for sharing stories, experiments and strategies for food autonomy in our age of ecological devastation.

Joseph Bullington

LaborInterviewPodcast

UPS Teamsters Have Authorized a Strike. What Comes Next?

The clock is ticking.

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

Labor

Amazon Says a Worker’s Death Was Not Work-Related. But a 911 Call Appears to Contradict the Company’s Narrative.

A 911 call, obtained through a FOIA, only cites dehydration as the possible cause of the fatal medical emergency.

Sarah Lazare and Jeff Schuhrke

LaborInterviewPodcast

Neoliberalism Has Wreaked Havoc on Canadian Workers. Now, They’re Charting a New Path.

“Labor has not survived unscathed. It is quite scathed.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

Abortion Rights are Trans Rights

One year after Dobbs, a record amount of anti-LGBT legislation has been unleashed across the country. What’s needed now—more than ever—is solidarity among marginalized genders.

Lexie Bean

Viewpoint

Dobbs Means People Like Me Can’t Plan Their Future

A woman reflects on her abortion and says she is “living proof” that it can sometimes be the best path.

Ryan-Simone