The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Tony Mazzocchi, a Working-Class Hero

A lifelong champion of workers’ rights and union democracy, Mazzocchi envisioned and worked to build a transformative U.S. labor movement.

Steve Early and Rand Wilson

Housing

How One Landlord Tried to Silence Tenants—and the Story of Their Rent Strike

To settle their eviction cases, Chicago tenants agreed to stop speaking publicly about their landlord. His attempt to hold them liable for past statements to the media could set a chilling precedent, experts say.

Hope Davis

Labor

Trump’s Latest Target: Coal Miners’ Safety

In one fell swoop, the Trump administration took an axe to the agency tasked with handling legal disputes around mine worker safety. It could signal even deeper cuts to worker protections coming down the pike.

Kim Kelly

Investigation

ICE-Cold Cash: Members of Congress Took More than $1.7 Million from ICE Contractors

Find out if your representatives have taken cash from Palantir, the private prison industry and other companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg and Ethan Corey

Culture

Notes on Our Connected Crusades for Liberation

Three poems from Cortney Lamar Charleston's new collection, "It's Important I Remember."

Cortney Lamar Charleston

ViewpointClimate

While the U.S. Doubles Down on Fossil Fuels, Other Countries Are Charting a Path Away From Them

The recent Santa Marta conference in Colombia was the world’s first diplomatic conference expressly dedicated to phasing out fossil fuels.

Basav Sen

DepartmentsPolitics

A Dream Deferred for the Jackson Faction

Jesse Jackson's politics of inclusion, an ongoing project, was spurred by his ascent to two candidacies for the Democratic presidential ticket.

In These Times Editors

Departments

Turning the Page on Corporate Bookselling

Radical booksellers create democratically governed spaces where the public is encouraged to build movements, rather than merely participate in the retail economy.

J. Patrick Patterson

Politics

The Grand Old Illusion of ‘Ethical’ Capitalism

Donald Trump’s Big Oil bonanza is an environmental disaster — but the industry’s reaction exposes a larger truth about capitalism itself.

Brad Swanson