Features
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Naomi Klein: We Need A Plan, Not A Brand
The author speaks on Corbyn, Trump, climate change, and the “hollow branding” that got us here. MORE
By Kate Aronoff
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Language of the Unheard: 50 Years On, the Flames of the Detroit Uprising Still Burn
The structural injustices that laid the groundwork for Detroit’s uprising still exist. MORE
By In These Times Staff
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The Great Midwestern Divide: Why Minnesota and Wisconsin’s Political Schism Matters
The governorships of conservative Scott Walker (R-Wis.) and progressive Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) have yielded dramatically different results. MORE
By Theo Anderson
Act Locally
Culture
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film
Okja: The Veggie-Prop Children's Film You Really Need to See
The director of Snowpiercer is back with a kiddie film that meets vegetarian propaganda, with surprising success. MORE
By Michael Atkinson
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books
Beta Testing Fascism: How Online Culture Wars Created the Alt-Right
Angela Nagle’s “Kill All Normies” charts the ideology’s emergence from the internet’s darkest corners. MORE
By John Michael Colón
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From the Old Country
Sorry, Tories: Jeremy Corbyn's Success Is a Win for the Anti-Austerity Movement
British progressives have a long fight ahead. But for now, we’re breathing a collective sigh of relief. MORE
By Jane Miller
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Exit Signs
The White-Supremacist Roots of America's Libertarian Right
The history of Koch-style libertarian economics is steeped in racism. MORE
By Chris Lehmann
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At the Bullfrog, Those Left Behind by the Global Economy Find Relief—and a Place to Talk Trump
In a Jamestown, N.Y., hotel and bar, down-and-out former factory workers seek solidarity and camaraderie—often expressed in shared rants about immigrants or liberals. MORE
By Kari Lydersen
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books
The Abolitionist of Walden Pond
Two hundred years after his birth, Henry David Thoreau is as relevant as ever. MORE
By Dayton Martindale
Columnists
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Editorial
We Have an Existential Imperative to Resist GOP Death Panels
The casualties of the war on health are real and imminent, not a hyperbolic exaggeration. MORE
By Joel Bleifuss
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Back Talk
Why Toxic Masculinity Hurts Men as Well as Women
Feminists and progressives need to highlight toxic masculinity’s poisonous effects on not just the marginalized, but men as well. MORE
By Susan J. Douglas
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The Third Coast
We Are In the Midst of a Black Power Renaissance
Under Trump, we are seeing a return to collective Black consciousness. MORE
By Salim Muwakkil