In These Times

02/02/2025

Less than two months after an In These Times investigation on the nation’s unrecognized mold health care crisis, one city at its center shows signs of taking action.

01/02/2025

Professors Lilly J. Goren and Nicholas Carnes—editors of an anthology on the subject—discuss the politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Even the Defense Department has its grip on America's largest franchise.

31/01/2025

"Speaking out for Palestinian rights and criticizing Israel’s genocide is protected First Amendment activity," explains Radhika Sainath, a Senior Staff Attorney with Palestine Legal.

"It's a dangerous authoritarian attempt to scare students from speaking out against Israel's genocide in Gaza by threatening them with prosecution and even deportation for non-citizens. It really strikes at the heart of students’ free speech rights."

31/01/2025

In Chicago, months of know-your-rights work has Trump’s border czar complaining.

Read our collaboration with Workday Magazine.

Months of know-your-rights work has Trump’s border czar complaining.

30/01/2025

"For a party that has been hemorrhaging support from these voters—once a core Democratic constituency—taking action to once again become the standard bearer of working people should be imperative."

To counter the tech oligarchy of Trump’s second term, Democrats need to offer a clear message: no to corporate power and economic elites, yes to more democracy and worker organizing.

29/01/2025

Read the latest comics from Bianca Xunise, Jen Sorensen, mariah-rose marie, and Ruben Bolling.

New comics by Jen Sorensen and more.

28/01/2025

Yesterday, Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia voted in favor of unionizing—and became the first unionized Whole Foods Market in the nation.

Read Kim Kelly's reporting on their unionization effort from last November: https://inthesetimes.com/article/whole-foods-union-philadelphia

28/01/2025

In Seattle, real estate and business interests are spending big against a February referendum to fund housing as a public good.

Real estate and business interests are spending big against a February referendum to fund housing as a public good.

27/01/2025

The Workers’ Bill of Rights—supported by more than 80% of voters—is the latest tool to reduce labor exploitation.

The Workers' Bill of Rights—supported by more than 80% of voters—is the latest tool to reduce labor exploitation.

24/01/2025

For many Ghanaians, President John Mahama’s return to power on January 7 feels like a turning point; the sense of relief and cautious optimism was palpable during Detty December.

President John Mahama’s re-election gave some Ghanaians "cautious optimism" during the festival season.

23/01/2025

Networks of U.S. union organizers are calling for an end to a system of apartheid in Israel and cessation of all armed conflict in the region.

22/01/2025

"While running for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, working class candidate Dan Osborn characterized the Senate as ​'a country club of millionaires that work for billionaires.'"

Dan Osborn ran as an independent in Nebraska and came close to ousting a two-term Republican incumbent. He’s not done taking on the billionaire class.

22/01/2025

A conversation with pro-Palestine organizers looking towards the next phase of struggle: disrupting the flow of U.S. weapons to Israel.

21/01/2025

Thousands of Trump's "most loyal voters had come to this place at their own expense to applaud him as their hero. They were, all too literally, left out in the cold," writes ITT columnist Hamilton Nolan.

"He had used them all as a footstool to step back into the White House, where he could safely forget about them."

At Trump’s second inauguration, no one wanted to admit they were the suckers.

21/01/2025

Comics for a dysfunctional healthcare system.

Comics for a Dysfunctional Healthcare System

21/01/2025

Zhanna Kadyrova ponders the role of art in war—and finds new meaning in bullet-pierced walls.

20/01/2025

"If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions."

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

19/01/2025

A mass movement against Trump 2.0 failed to materialize.

The true believers came out to the People's March in D.C., but a mass movement against Trump 2.0 failed to materialize.