Features
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A Bold Foreign Policy Platform for the New Wave of Left Lawmakers
Socialists and other progressives are running for office on strong domestic programs. Here’s how their foreign policy platform can be just as strong. MORE
By Phyllis Bennis
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How Unions Can Solve the Housing Crisis
The labor movement once provided working class New Yorkers with tens of thousands of low-cost co-op apartments. It could do so again. MORE
By Erik Forman
Act Locally
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Will Mexico’s New President Declare Independence From the United States?
At public forums, Mexicans are pushing Andrés Manuel López Obrador to break with the U.S. on migration and drug policy. MORE
By Kent Paterson
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Detroiters Fear Losing Their Water May Mean Losing Their Kids
As thousands of Detroiters have their water shut off over debt, neighbors are helping each other to access water without alerting Child and Family Services. MORE
By Valerie Vande Panne
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Turning a KKK Bombing Ground Into an Urban Farm
A black-led cooperative movement grows pumpkins and community in Birmingham. MORE
By Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Culture
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books
Portrait of the Environmentalist as a Young Arsonist
Abby Geni’s new novel, The Wildlands, explores means and ends in the fight for animal and Earth liberation. MORE
By Dayton Martindale
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Steve Bannon’s European Dream
Europe used to serve as a utopian vision for the Left and a punching bag for the Right. Now it’s reversing. MORE
By Eleanor Penny
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Culture
Socialism and Feminism: We Can’t Have One Without the Other
Fighting capitalism and patriarchy at the same time. MORE
By In These Times Editors
Columnists
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We Are Witnessing the Last Gasps of Centrism
While the Democratic establishment is blindly attempting to revive the neoliberal Third Way, the party’s base is embracing socialism. MORE
By Miles Kampf-Lassin
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It’s Time for the Left To Unite Behind Bernie 2020
He’s popular, principled and there are no better options. MORE
By Briahna Gray
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Don’t Endorse Bernie Yet—Make Candidates Compete for the Left Vote
Keep the left lane open. MORE
By Sean McElwee
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The Inside-Outside Approach to Bernie 2020
Endorse, but play the long game. MORE
By Peter Frase