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“The Children,” James Baldwin Wrote, “Are Always Ours, Every Single One of Them"

Saqib Bhatti laments the unbearable task of parenting during genocide—from the United States to Gaza.

Saqib Bhatti

ViewpointElection 2024

Democrats Don't Need a Coach, They Need a Teacher

The choice to campaign as "Coach" Walz may be as tactically bankrupt as it is morally so: if Americans truly want an American football coach, isn’t that the "you're fired" persona Trump already embodies?

Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva

ViewpointElection 2024

Harris Is No Socialist—But Her Economic Plans Are Far Better Than Trump’s

Trump wants to throw more money at the super rich, while Harris is proposing spending on public programs to benefit the working class. While her plans don’t go nearly far enough, they’re superior to the alternative.

Max B. Sawicky

LaborViewpoint

Believe It Or Not, Unions Have Even Bigger Problems than the 2024 Election

With just weeks until Election Day, the current political trends are a warning siren to the labor movement.

Hamilton Nolan

ViewpointPalestine

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Challenging the Cognitive Dissonance of Pro-Israel Liberalism

Coates is taking critiques of Zionism into the mainstream, chipping away at Israel’s increasingly dubious liberal self-image.

Adam Johnson

ViewpointCulture

Big Back Panic: Fatphobia's Rebrand

Anti-fatness is back with a vengeance so aggressive it puts 1990s ​“heroin chic” to shame.

Tee Noir

LaborViewpointClimate

The Search for Green Common Ground

A capitalist transition to electric cars pits auto workers, transit riders and frontline communities against each other. What happens when they sit down together?

Emmett Hopkins

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A Fascist Specter Is Haunting America

Electoral appeals to the American worker are fueling racism against immigrants.

Alberto Toscano

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Louisiana’s CRT Ban Continues the Long History Suppressing Black Education

Throughout history, those in power have labeled antiracist pedagogy and the education of Black people as dangerous and inflammatory.

Jesse Hagopian

ViewpointPalestine

Eric Adams Allegedly Took Bribes to Erase the Genocide That Killed My Ancestors

The mayor’s silence on the Armenian genocide mirrors his refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Jesse Hagopian

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In the Shadow of the Obama Center, Chicago Residents Fight Displacement

Investors are snapping up homes in the South Shore neighborhood, but a new tenants union is fighting back.

Fran Quigley

ViewpointElection 2024

The Warning Signs for Kamala Harris's Campaign Are Flashing Red

With only weeks left until Election Day, Harris can go from underdog to frontrunner by winning over working-class and anti-war voters.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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Jews and Democrats Are Not Sending Hurricanes to Kill Trump Supporters

How climate change conspiracy theories are shifting attention from systemic causes to convenient scapegoats.

Shane Burley

LaborViewpoint

Winning Worker Rights Requires Fixing U.S. Democracy

Gerrymandering and the filibuster are holding back wage increases, the right to unionize and other benefits for workers. 

Paul Sonn

ViewpointPalestine

School Curriculum Supports the Genocide. Here’s How Teachers Can Push Back.

Bill Bigelow

ViewpointPalestineCulture

What Happened to Protest Music?

The success of Macklemore's "Hind's Hall" offers hope for a resurgence of protest music.

Ivie Ani

ViewpointPalestine

A Fateful Year: How It Feels to Lose Gaza

A year after October 7, In These Times contributor Yousef Aljamal reflects on the complete destruction of Gaza and the deaths of so many friends and family members.

Yousef Aljamal

ViewpointPalestine

A SWANA Space to Exist

As we pass one year of genocide, Salon Kawakib will not be silenced and we will celebrate our own anniversary: two years of cultural organizing and building community in Chicago.

Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel

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The High Stakes of Mapping the Midwest

How can a state continue to be deadlocked with a legislature controlled by Trumpian Republicans when it’s been busy electing not just Democrats but, in many cases, progressive Democrats?

John Nichols

ViewpointElection 2024

Faux Populism Takes Center Stage at Vice-Presidential Debate

Tuesday’s debate offers Democrats a warning about how much more appealing Trumpism can be when presented in an equally mendacious but more competent way.

Akil Vicks

ViewpointClimate

Citibank Is Bankrolling The Largest Offshore Oil Facility In the U.S.—Just Miles From My Home

As part of the historic Summer of Heat campaign, I went to Citibank’s headquarters to demand climate justice—where dozens of protesters were arrested.

Sue Page

ViewpointElection 2024

The Disturbing Reason Trump and Vance Peddle Lies About Immigrants

The influx of Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio is a success story, not a scandal. But when powerful people don’t want to share prosperity, they lie.

Peter Certo

ViewpointPalestine

"We Can’t Arrest Our Way to Liberation"

After the Palestinian Nabala Cafe was attacked, owner Eyad Zeid decided not to turn to police. Instead, he found strength and support in community.

Eyad Zeid

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Feminism, Debt and Organizing Against Argentina’s Far Right

Debt is a Crucial Organizing Avenue Against Argentina’s Far Right.

Verónica Gago and Lucí Cavallero