Alex Han

Chicago

Executive Director at In These Times

executive director, @inthesetimesmag. prev @bcgproject, @_convergencemag, @berniesanders, @uwfillinois, @seiuhciimk. tweets always my own.

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Articles

It's Up to the Left to Do What's Right

4 weeks ago | inthesetimes.com | Alex Han

Alex Han March 26, 2025 The Right is not evil, stupid or overreaching. They have goals, plans and strategy, and they are executing them. Progressives need to do the same. It’s hard not to spend time recoiling in horror each day at whatever fresh hell the Elon Musk/ Donald Trump administration is unleashing. Laying off critical aviation safety workers during an aviation safety crisis. Unlawfully shutting down entire federal agencies by fiat.
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2 months ago | inthesetimes.com | Alex Han

Alex Han February 19, 2025 I’m writing to you from Chicago, which occupies a special place not only in the collective hysterical imagination of Donald Trump and the far Right, but in the history and present of movements for justice. Chicago has been the home of In These Times since our founding in 1976. The city has been, for more than 150 years, a center not just of protest and resistance, but the hard work of organizing and building progressive power.
An Award to Sustain the Growing Labor Movement

Jan 16, 2025 | inthesetimes.com | Alex Han

Figures like Sue Ko Lee and Dorothy Bolden offer the modern labor movement key characters in a shared origin narrative, precedents that indelibly, if imperceptibly, shaped the disruptive and defiant organizing efforts of the last five years. The very notion of labor’s resurgence implies our inheritance of the sacrifices, the acts of solidarity of thousands of workers, the celebrated and the unnamed alike.
Independent Press for Working People and a Free Palestine

Jun 11, 2024 | inthesetimes.com | Alex Han

Alex Han June 12, 2024 In These Times was awarded the 2024 Izzy Award for “outstanding achievement in independent media.” Alex Han accepted the award on April 23. This speech has been significantly edited for length and clarity. I want to open by acknowledging a few of my fellow awardees who have been important voices for years, but really at no more of a critical time than the last seven months of Israel’s brutal war on the people of Gaza.
The Political Coalition the Left Needs to Win

Apr 16, 2024 | inthesetimes.com | Alex Han
Can Unions Rebuild Our Democracy?

Mar 20, 2024 | progressivehub.net | Alex Han

Our institutions have failed to protect democracy. Can unions take up the fight? by Alex Han, In These TimesThere’s little evidence that our political system is anything but broken, and confidence in these failing institutions — from Congress to the news media to organized religion to the Supreme Court to the White House — continues to decline. The necessary conversations in our movement spaces are mostly quite simple: What’s left? What’s worth salvaging? What can we carry with us?
Can Unions Rebuild Our Democracy?

Mar 19, 2024 | znetwork.org | Alex Han

For so many of us, these are mostly dark times interrupted by brief windows of hope — and the road ahead is daunting. No matter how this year’s presidential election plays out, the contest’s ultimate winner will surely be pessimism, one of the few things Americans across the political spectrum seem to be in alignment on: pessimism for the future, pessimism for possibilities of transformation, pessimism for the idea that justice will win the day.
Can Unions Rebuild Our Democracy?

Mar 18, 2024 | rsn.org | Alex Han

Our institutions have failed to protect democracy. Can unions take up the fight? For so many of us, these are mostly dark times interrupted by brief windows of hope — and the road ahead is daunting.
Can Unions Rebuild Our Democracy?

Mar 18, 2024 | inthesetimes.com | Alex Han

Alex Han March 18, 2024 For so many of us, these are mostly dark times interrupted by brief windows of hope — and the road ahead is daunting. No matter how this year’s presidential election plays out, the contest’s ultimate winner will surely be pessimism, one of the few things Americans across the political spectrum seem to be in alignment on: pessimism for the future, pessimism for possibilities of transformation, pessimism for the idea that justice will win the day.
Can Unions Rebuild Our Democracy?

Mar 17, 2024 | workplacefairness.org | Alex Han

For so many of us, these are mostly dark times interrupted by brief windows of hope — and the road ahead is daunting. No matter how this year’s presidential election plays out, the contest’s ultimate winner will surely be pessimism, one of the few things Americans across the political spectrum seem to be in alignment on: pessimism for the future, pessimism for possibilities of transformation, pessimism for the idea that justice will win the day.