Tanner Howard is a freelance journalist and In These Times editorial intern. They’re also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
The Republicans calculated that by focusing on inflation they could immunize themselves from the growing backlash against the Supreme Court’s abortion decision. They were wrong, but the Democrats shouldn’t celebrate too much.
The Department of Homeland Security is helping to coordinate tech company censorship efforts according to recent reporting. The line between tech firms and the national security state is only getting blurrier.
For over 40 years since the return of Spanish democracy, the rulings of Franco-era political courts still criminalized those who resisted the dictatorship. Now, the country’s new Democratic Memory Law has finally cleared the names of the anti-fascist prisoners.
Due to walkouts and the threat of a general strike, Ontario’s premier has walked back a bill that would have robbed workers of the right to strike. But Ontario labor’s willingness to defend working-class livelihoods will be needed in forthcoming negotiations.
Options trading is sold as a way for average people to make money off the stock market. But it’s not: small-time investors are being systematically fleeced.
Recent decades of brutal deindustrialization have helped lead many liberals to rethink their trust in the market as the arbiter of which jobs should exist. But without an organized working class, a turn toward industrial policy can’t improve the lives of the majority.
We talked to author and activist Cory Doctorow about his new book, Chokepoint Capitalism, copyright scams, surveillance capitalism, the lies of Big Tech, and the fight for the freedom to create.
Recent oil workers’ strikes in France are at the cutting edge of a rising wave of industrial action. CGT union leader Philippe Martinez told Jacobin how organized labor can lead the fight against the rising cost of living.
During a speech on Saturday, Joe Biden referred to right-wing protesters calling him a socialist as “idiots.” He’s right. Socialists are committed to ending inequality, and the president has always been on the other side of the barricades.
The climate crisis is dire, and voters have indicated they want action. Yet less than 1 percent of ads for congressional midterm races have focused on the environment.
Once an arm of the radical labor movement, the ACLU now defends free speech as a neutral principle — including the anti-union speech of bosses and the political speech of corporations. The story of the ACLU’s evolution is the story of liberalism itself.
To address the cost-of-living crisis, we need to expand production and rein in corporate profits. Only Congress and the White House have the tools for the job — but they won’t use them unless labor organizes to force their hands.
Leonard Leo, a Trump adviser behind the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, has long sought to shape policy through state attorney general offices. His dark money network is now working to bring a Republican attorney general to power in Iowa.
The races for Arizona’s energy commission and an anti–dark money ballot initiative will decide whether Arizonans themselves oversee the state’s energy utility or the company can regulate itself according to the dictates of profit-making.
Minnesotans vote for attorney general tomorrow, with progressive Keith Ellison facing Republican former finance lawyer Jim Schultz. Schultz is trying to frame the election around crime — to avoid the race’s high stakes for consumers’ and workers’ rights.
Facing a close race in New York’s gubernatorial contest, Democrats are doubling down on elite feminism. But at a time when many voters feel beleaguered by crime and inflation, you-go-girl pep rallies won’t stem the rightward trend.
A journalist in Edmonton is the most recent Canadian to be charged with vandalizing a Nazi monument. How Canada came to be home to so many monuments dedicated to Ukrainian Nazi collaborators is rooted in some dark chapters in the country’s history.
Ontario’s conservative government refused to bargain with its public education workers. But the decision to impose a contract on the workers appears to have backfired — it has increased worker solidarity and organizing and provoked an “illegal” strike.
If you believed the mainstream media portrait of Communism in the 1960s, you’d assume the Cubans, Russians, and Americans were in lockstep. But if you were inside the Communist Party USA, as Michael Myerson was, you knew the reality was far different.
Western states and arms companies have facilitated a destructive war in Yemen that’s already claimed 400,000 lives. A six-month truce recently ended without agreement on a peace deal — ending this horrific conflict must now be an international priority.