In These Times

21 hours ago | inthesetimes.com | Maximillian Alvarez

In October of 2022, over 100 workers represented by five labor unions, including production, distribution, advertising and accounts receivable staff, walked off the job on an unfair labor practice strike at the storied publication the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The strike began after the newspaper’s management, Block Communications, which is owned by the Block family, cut off health insurance for employees on October 1 of that year.

1 day ago | inthesetimes.com | Maximillian Alvarez

The Trump administration continues to escalate its authoritarian assault on higher education, free speech, and political dissent — and university administrators and state government officials are willingly aiding that assault. On the morning of April 23, at the direction of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, law enforcement officers, including FBI agents, raided the homes of multiple student organizers connected to Palestine solidarity protests at the University of Michigan.

1 day ago | inthesetimes.com | Alex Han

We are entering a political moment that has no modern parallel in the United States. In the ashes of the liberal world order, a new political era is being born, with all of its ensuing confusion, chaos and pain. We are under attack, and our resistance is fledgling, at best. But the right-wing authoritarian project in the United States, as represented by Trump and MAGA, has failed. This assertion may seem premature; regardless, the indicators are everywhere.

2 days ago | inthesetimes.com | Mattie Lubchansky |Jen Sorensen |Tom Tomorrow |Ruben Bolling

Jen Sorensen is a cartoonist for Daily Kos, The Nation, In These Times, Politico and other publications throughout the US. She received the 2023 Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning from the National Press Foundation, and is a recipient of the 2014 Herblock Prize and a 2013 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She is also a Pulitzer Finalist.

2 days ago | inthesetimes.com | Adam Federman

On a Wednesday morning in mid-February, Boston University ecology professor Nathan Phillips staged one of the nation’s first protests against Elon Musk’s central role in gutting government agencies and firing tens of thousands of federal workers. It was a lonely one: Phillips and a close friend holding signs reading ​“Defund Musk” on the sidewalk outside a Tesla showroom in Boston’s upscale Back Bay neighborhood.