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Brandon Johnson holds up a speaker at an outdoor protest
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Two Years After Electing a Mayor, Chicago’s Left Keeps Contesting for Power
Movement-backed Mayor Brandon Johnson and a record class of progressive alders took office exactly two years ago. I spoke with more than a dozen organizers about what we’ve won, what we’ve learned about power and what’s still to be done to deliver a more equitable city.
Asha Ransby-Sporn
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Forget America First—Under Trump, It's Corporations First
Big corporations donated heavily to Trump’s inaugural fund. Just a few months later, federal cases against them are being dropped.
Rick Claypool
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Trump's First 100 Days Have Been an Absolute Disaster for Workers
Trump has gutted labor rights, slashed the federal workforce, and opposed a minimum wage hike. But resistance is brewing.
Sarah Anderson
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Mainstream Media’s Anti-Palestinian Double Standard Is On Full Display
Another day, another racist attack on Rep. Rashida Tlaib that our media completely ignores.
Adam Johnson
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Putting Reentry Out of Business
Unions must think beyond reform and seriously consider abolition—the elimination and eradication of carceral institutions that exacerbate violence and underprepare people for reentry.
Calvin John Smiley
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Rise and Unwind
We all work too much. Let’s take up the fight for more freedom and less time on the job.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
woman stands with arms folded in front of red wall with mural of hands breaking free from chains
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From Permanent Precarity to Permanent Power
At Beyond the Bars, we see what others refuse to see: the talent, discipline and vision of the criminalized working class.
Katherine Passley
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The War on Vietnam Ended 50 Years Ago and the U.S. Desperately Needs More Action on Agent Orange
Congress Should mark the 50th anniversary by passing new legislation addressing the impact of Agent Orange.
Susan Schnall and Azadeh Shahshahani
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Chris Rufo and the Burger Kings
An extremely online debate reveals fractures in the MAGA coalition and low-status yearnings for a white aristocracy.
Matt McManus
LaborViewpoint
Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.
The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.
Kim Kelly
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Robert McChesney Was a Lifelong Fighter for Democratic Media
Let's honor Robert McChesney by continuing his fight for a media free from corporate control.
Dean Baker
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Unions Without Strikes
Today's labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.
Hamilton Nolan
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How Sweeping Tariffs Came to Be and Why It Matters
Targeted tariffs could be an important part of an industrial policy tool kit—but Trump's sweeping tariff policy will harm workers, not help them.
Todd N. Tucker
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Trump's Tariffs Have Nothing to Do With Liberation
Trade justice demands systemic reform: binding labor rights, climate protections and democratic accountability. Trump's poorly designed tariffs offer none of that.
Iza Camarillo
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Unions as a 21st Century Anti-Fascist Force
Trump and his MAGA movement are conspiring with oligarchs to turn the U.S. into a rightwing authoritarian state. The labor movement can play a key role in fighting back.
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
ViewpointPalestine
“Do Not Participate”: The Absurd Excuse Notre Dame Gave Me When They Canceled My Talk
What a tragedy when we cannot rely on universities to house our most critical conversations.
Eman Abdelhadi
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More Than 1,800 Academics Say They Will Boycott Columbia—and the Number Is Growing
Columbia's acquiescence to Trump was disgraceful. As faculty, we demand better.
Jessica Halliday Hardie and Ajantha Subramanian
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Democratic Party Leaders and “Free Speech” Warriors Shrug as Trump Deports Dissidents
While the Trump administration targets hundreds over their constitutionally protected right to political speech, Democratic leadership and influential media pundits have largely stayed quiet.
Adam Johnson and Sarah Lazare
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They Are Disappearing People
Trump is turning deportation into a weapon of mass destruction. None of us—undocumented immigrants, people with papers, naturalized citizens or native-born citizens—are safe.
Sonali Kolhatkar
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Notes From an Arab on Surviving Trump
If the evil of this place is just now catching up with your own life, you have probably been one of the more fortunate.
Eman Abdelhadi
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It's Up to the Left to Do What's Right
Executive Director Alex Han urges readers of In These Times to understand and develop strategies against the Right.
Alex Han
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The Labor Movement Should Stand Up for Mahmoud Khalil
Unions have a moral imperative to defend against illegal attacks on political speech. That means demanding justice for Mahmoud Khalil.
Jimmy Williams Jr.
ViewpointPolitics
The Strange Bedfellows Fighting School Vouchers
In the roiling politics of so-called “school choice,” public school advocates have some unexpected allies on the Right.
Jennifer Berkshire
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No, Elon Musk, Social Security Isn’t a “Ponzi Scheme”
Right-wing billionaires have long wanted to shred the safety net. Under Trump, they’re using lies and fears over the deficit to debilitate Social Security.
Max B. Sawicky
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