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A Magazine and Political Movement Intending to Change the World

The words of In These Times founder, James Weinstein, still ring true 50 years later: “No political movement can be healthy unless it has its own press to inform it, educate it and orient it.”

Alex Han

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Empire of Extortion

The abduction of Venezuela’s president and the plunder of its oil signal a new and dangerous phase in U.S. foreign policy.

Alberto Toscano

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"ICE Is Made Up of a Bunch of Cowards"

Artist Margaret Vail Palmquist eviscerates ICE in a series of illustrations over its abduction of a 5-year-old in the Minneapolis area earlier in the week.

Margaret Vail Palmquist

ViewpointCulture

Read This If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way

Abolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward.

Mariame Kaba

LaborViewpoint

Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now

At first glance it sounds impossible — but a strategic look back at the coordinated strikes and militancy of the past two decades shows we might be much closer than we think.

Alex Han

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Capitalism Without Humans

As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.

Sarah Jaffe

LaborViewpoint

"We Will Be Closed: ICE Out of Minnesota"

All the ingredients for a general strike are present in Minnesota.

Luis Feliz Leon

ViewpointFeature

Want to Fight Fascism? Look to U.S. History.

What Reconstruction, the New Deal and the Rainbow Coalition can teach us about building the broadest possible front to fight the authoritarian Right

Rishi Awatramani

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“Always More Than a Label”: 8 Ways to Be Like King for the Struggle Today—Coretta Scott King, That Is

Jeanne Theoharis

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End Military Action in Venezuela and Help Working Class Americans

Healthcare costs are doubling, food prices are rising and the safety net is shredded. So why are we launching an illegal war to profit oil companies?

Lindsay Koshgarian

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ICE Is the Domestic Terror Threat

The federal agent who killed Renee Nicole Good shot her because he knew he could—because the Trump administration has purposely empowered law enforcement to act with impunity.

Jordan Liz

ViewpointPolitics

Antifa Everywhere

As Trump revives the war on terror against domestic opposition, what does antifascism mean?

Alberto Toscano

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There Should Be No Debate. Corporations Should Pay More Taxes.

As Chicago's budget standoff continues, the issue of whether corporations should pay more taxes to support the public good should not be contentious.

Elizabeth Todd-Breland

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For the First Time in the Trump Era, a Key Opportunity Is Here

This month voters repudiated MAGA in elections large and small across the country. Those of us on the left need a clear-eyed assessment of the political terrain and a vision that can look beyond the current fight.

Alex Han

ViewpointPalestine

Mamdani Won. Now What?

After two years of a genocide committed by the Israeli government in Gaza, Israel’s grip on the political narrative is slipping.

Nashwa Bawab

ViewpointDispatchClimate

COP30 Isn't a Failure — It's a Farce

Why these climate summits can't solve the crisis—and why we should support Indigenous land struggles instead.

Peter Gelderloos

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The Shutdown May Be Over, But Millions Are Still Set to Lose Food Stamps

Trump and the GOP's "Big Beautiful Bill" passed earlier this year includes the largest cuts to SNAP in history. And those cuts are starting now.

Reyanna James

ViewpointPolitics

The Mamdani Freak-Out

With its hyperfocus on NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and left anti-Zionism, the right-wing Jewish establishment is revealing just how antidemocratic it is.

Dania Rajendra

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Why is Mainstream Media Ignoring Overtly Racist Attacks on Mamdani from Congressional Republicans?

Non-stop Islamophobic vitriol, threats of deportation, and virtually no coverage from CNN, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or The Washington Post.

Adam Johnson

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Trump’s Kill Zone in the Caribbean Is an Escalation of the Never-ending U.S. Drug War

The strikes on boats near Venezuela mark a new phase in a murderous war on Latin America that has been waged by 10 U.S. presidents.

Greg Grandin

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As Storms Displace Thousands in Rural Alaska, Federal Cuts Put Even More Communities in Peril

Warming seas, driven by climate change, are strengthening storms like the ones that ravaged Alaska Native communities along the state’s western coast in October.

Tim Lydon

ViewpointPolitics

The Secretary of All Wars

Pete Hegseth’s MAGA vision for the “Department of War” ultimately makes no distinction between military, social, cultural and religious conflicts.

Alberto Toscano

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Brad Lander on Mamdani's Win: "It’s not only on Zohran. It’s on all of us."

In an op-ed for In These Times, Lander writes that in response to looming threats from Donald Trump, "We’ve got to rise to the challenge together—as New Yorkers."

Brad Lander

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A New Kind of Party

The Democrats’ centrist wing suffered its latest humiliation with Andrew Cuomo’s defeat in New York City. It’s time for something new—and the victory of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani points the way.

Miles Kampf-Lassin