Features
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Slavoj Zizek: We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism
The refugees won’t all make it to Norway. Nor does the Norway they seek exist. MORE
By Slavoj Žižek
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Margaret Atwood on Climate Change, Her New Book and Why Socialists Are Better with Budgets
We asked the speculative fiction writer about this month’s Canadian elections and (relatedly?) whether humanity is doomed. MORE
By Jessica Stites
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At Colleges, Running Backs Get All the Greenbacks, While Academic Students Fight Over Crumbs
College football has become a bloated, multi-million dollar business, subverting the original mission of universities—education. MORE
By Gilbert M. Gaul
Act Locally
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A Bill of Rights That Puts Workers Above Corporations
It’s up to the voters of Spokane, Washington. MORE
By Simon Davis-Cohen
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These Activists Are Trying To Solve the Housing Crisis—By Suing the Suburbs
Bay Area activists take a suburb to court, saying it refused to allow high-density housing MORE
By s.e. smith
Culture
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Jeremy Corbyn Is Already Pushing the Labour Party to Fight Inequality and Injustice
Despite a seemingly endless torrent of attacks and gossip, Corbyn is building a real alternative to politics as usual in the UK. MORE
By Jane Miller
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When the Bank Robs You
Mehrsa Baradaran’s How the Other Half Banks tells the history of banks robbing from the poor and giving to the rich–and explains how we can stop it. MORE
By David Dayen
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Culture
The Neverending Presidency: An Unfettered Look at How Democracy Lost to Mugabe
Camilla Nielsson’s new documentary, Democrats, is a study in how a dictatorship can weather a ‘democratic transition’ MORE
By Michael Atkinson
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film
The Neverending Presidency: An Unfettered Look at How Democracy Lost to Mugabe
Camilla Nielsson’s new documentary, Democrats, is a study in how a dictatorship can weather a ‘democratic transition’ MORE
By Michael Atkinson
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The Most Disappointing Thing About Submission Isn't Islamophobia, But Its Tedious Sexism
Any nuanced discussion about the intersection of cultures in Michel Houellebecq’s new book is buried under its tiresome narration MORE
By Chris Lehmann
Columnists
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Editorial
A Chemical-Industrial Complex
Why do many hazardous chemicals go unregulated in the United States? An In These Times investigation reveals the answer. MORE
By Joel Bleifuss
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The Third Coast
Black Lives Matter Activists Declare Solidarity with Palestine
The statement revives the internationalism of the ’60s and ’70s, when black activists saw themselves as part of a global fight against Western colonialism MORE
By Salim Muwakkil