Features
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West Virginia Showed How Necessary—And Difficult—Striking Is
“It was exhilarating and exhausting. You start thinking, ‘Are we going to be out forever?’” MORE
By Kate Aronoff
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The DCCC's Long, Ugly History of Sabotaging Progressives
The latest attacks on left challengers are no fluke: For decades the House Democratic fundraising body has put corporate, big-money interests first. MORE
By Branko Marcetic
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The Visa Loophole That Big Ag Construction Firms Love To Exploit
How hog barn builders are importing labor at low wages and leaving local workers in the dust. MORE
By Stephen Franklin et al.
Act Locally
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These Community Activists Won Bail Reform. Now They Have To Force Judges To Comply.
Thousands of people still sit in Chicago’s Cook County Jail because they are too poor to afford bail. MORE
By Alex V. Hernandez
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This Sheriff Was Booted by DHS for Racism. Now Trump Wants To Enlist Him in Deportations.
A North Carolina sheriff’s office had a “pattern of racial profiling,” but that hasn’t stopped Trump’s ICE from inviting it into the 287(g) program. MORE
By Jordan Green
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This Union Nurse and Outspoken Progressive Could Become Iowa’s Next Governor
Cathy Glasson is running an insurgent campaign on a platform of Medicare for all, a $15 minimum wage and ending “right to work” laws. MORE
By Theo Anderson
Culture
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books
Barbara Ehrenreich Calls BS on the Immortality Industry
In her new book, Natural Causes, the author reminds us that we can’t cheat death – although we can die trying. MORE
By Jane Miller
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books
An Ode to Sharp-Tongued Women, From Dorothy Parker to Susan Sontag
Michelle Dean’s new book Sharp profiles brilliant and creative women who fought sexism, but, by and large, did not identify with the feminist movement. MORE
By Laura Tanenbaum
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books
A Middle America You’ll Never See in the Coastal Media
The micro-comics in John Porcellino’s From Lone Mountain show a way of life the media largely ignores. MORE
By Jessa Crispin
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Culture
Universal Basic Income: A Primer
Here’s why everyone’s demanding free money from the government. MORE
By Dayton Martindale
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Culture
What Noam Chomsky Got Right About NAFTA
In 1994, writing for In These Times, Noam Chomsky predicted the trade deal would cause “rural misery and a surplus of labor” and “the fading of meaningful and democratic processes.” MORE
By In These Times Editors
Columnists
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How Tariffs Are Playing Into Trump's Xenophobic Agenda
Trump’s anti-China protectionism and “free trade” neoliberalism are both dead ends. To confront multinational corporate power, the answer is global solidarity. MORE
By Tobita Chow
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Say It Ain't Joe: Why Anointing Biden for 2020 Is a Terrible Idea
When will the Democrats learn that Americans don’t want centrism? MORE
By Joel Bleifuss
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A Pro-Union Case for Steel Tariffs
United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard on how tariffs could benefit American workers. MORE
By Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
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Tariffs Aren't the Best Way To Protect U.S. Steelworkers. Global Solidarity Is.
Defending workers’ rights will mean standing with fellow laborers in China and the Global South. Trump’s tariffs aren’t the answer. MORE
By Katy Fox-Hodess