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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

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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

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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

ViewpointPalestine
New York Times Repeats U.S. Government’s Evidence-Free Claim That Gaza Protests Are Part of Iranian Plot
Where is the actual evidence that Iranian operatives “posing as students” are helping organize and fund campus protests over the war on Gaza?
Adam Johnson

LaborViewpoint
The Weird and Stupid Teamsters Non-Endorsement Fiasco
Refusing to endorse a presidential candidate will do nothing to stop Trump and the GOP’s war on workers.
Hamilton Nolan

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Exiting Prison With No Money, No Credit and No Way to Avoid Debt
How the consequences of incarceration and reentry create financial–and social–debt.
Calvin John Smiley

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Fighting Privatization Is Good for Mental Health
Dedicated community leaders and persistent organizing are helping make Chicago’s new expansion of public mental health services a reality.
Elena Gormley

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Low-Wage Corporations Are Fleecing Their Workers to Massively Inflate CEO Pay
Why don’t low wage workers earn more? Because their bosses plowed $522 million into manipulating their stock price—and CEO paychecks—instead.
Sarah Anderson

ViewpointElection 2024
Kamala Harris Says “We’re Not Going Back.” But What’s Her Plan Forward?
In last night’s presidential debate, Harris outperformed Trump. Yet she was light on policy specifics and failed to articulate how her agenda would mark a clean break from the past.
Branko Marcetic

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024
The Right Is Increasingly Exploiting the Horror of Genocide
Right-wing operatives are channeling the genocide in Gaza into mainstream antisemitism.
Ben Lorber

ViewpointPalestineDispatch
Displaced in Gaza: Dispatches
We share their dreams and aspirations, to tell them that there will be a day when the Palestinian people will live in freedom and dignity.
Yousef Aljamal

ViewpointElection 2024
Project 2025 Could Erase More Than 1.7 Million Jobs and Hike Electricity Prices By $32 Billion
A new study shows that the Republican game plan would lead to mass job losses and higher energy costs for consumers.
Yaseen al-Sheikh

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The Unsung History of Heartland Socialism
While often overlooked, the spirit of socialism has coursed through the American Midwest ever since the movement emerged in the 19th century. It continues to animate the region’s political landscape today.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
