In These Times

Bernie Sanders on Why Superintelligent AI Is an Existential Threat That Needs To Be Banned

The rapid development of AI is far outpacing regulation, and experts warn that all of humanity could be under threat. There's no doubt that we need to take a pause.

Bernie Sanders

Tech Authoritarian Doomsayers

The Silicon Valley hyper-rich elite are aiming to undo democracy—and modern society—for their own profit. The only problem? There are far more of us than them.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

DispatchHousing

Kingston’s Quiet Rent Revolution

Landlords have spent years ignoring a historic rent reduction. Now, tenants are organizing to get their money back.

Thomas Birmingham

What Teamsters Class Solidarity Looks Like

Yael Bridge’s new documentary "Who Moves America" about the UPS contract fight offers a window into the the class culture of one of the country’s largest unions.

Luis Feliz Leon

Elected Officials Are Facing a Reckoning Over Their Collusion with Big AI

Across the country, Americans from all stripes are calling on politicians to dump Big Tech.

Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas

The Big Idea: Winning

Democratic socialists are on the ballot from now until November. If they win their elections, the socialist movement wins a new path forward.

Thomas Birmingham

FeatureCover StoryInvestigation

In the Name of Security

An investigation into the everyday violence of prison strip searches, which incarcerated women say are a tool of abuse.

Khawla Nakua

FeatureClimateRural America

Fortress Yellowstone

The ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zones around the world

Joseph Bullington

LaborInvestigation

AI’s Rise is Being Fueled by the Sprawling U.S. Military State

Can an increasingly precarious tech workforce be a site of antiwar resistance?

Sarah Lazare

Latest Stories

If You Want to Win Working-Class Votes, Run On Working-Class Issues

A new report lays out how to bridge the educational divide to bring non-college voters into the progressive fold.

9/11/2001: I Was a Freshman in Alabama, I Wore a Hijab

Twenty-five years after Sept. 11, 2001, Gowayed writes that "the hate feels louder than it has ever been, more entitled and more brazen. I’m terrified of what the coming decades will bring."

25 Years After 9/11, How Do We Build a Movement To Stop Forever Wars?

As Trump wages an unpopular war with Iran, historian Jeremy Varon discusses what we can learn from the movement that turned the tide against the Iraq War.

How The War on Terror Continues To Terrorize Communities 25 Years Later

Twenty five years after the 9/11 attacks and the launch of the Global War on Terror, the U.S government continues to expand its tools of repression to further crush dissent.

Tina Al-khersan and Azadeh Shahshahani

COMICS CURATED BY MATT BORS

ViewpointComics

Dick Cheney Will Be Tortured in Hell

An obituary for Dick Cheney in one frame, and other Election Day comics!

Matt Bors, Jen Sorensen, Ruben Bolling, Mattie Lubchansky and Keith Knight

I Went to Pedophile Island and All I Got Was This Lousy Shirt!

New comics from Mattie Lubchansky, Bianca Xunise, Jen Sorensen and Brian McFadden.

Mattie Lubchansky, Bianca Xunise, Jen Sorensen and Brian McFadden

Turn the Tables on the Oligarchy and Strike!

Brian McFadden, Ruben Bolling, Tom Tomorrow and Jen Sorensen

An Homage to Chicago’s the Orphanage and Other Comics

Bianca Xunise, Tom Tomorrow, Brian McFadden and Jen Sorensen

Ai Should Replace Your Boss And Other Comics

Tom Tomorrow, Mattie Lubchansky, Jen Sorensen and Sam Wallman

CONTEXT ON TRUMP'S ILLEGAL WAR ON IRAN

Dick Cheney: A Profile in Impunity

The life of Cheney which brought so many to await his death.

Alberto Toscano

Global Trade at Gunpoint

Trump is setting up a protection racket to expand corporate power around the world

Sarah Lazare

ViewpointFeature

As Workers Struggle, Our Political Class Goes All In On a Permanent War State

From blood banks to food insecurity, a snapshot of a country whose raison d'etre is increasingly open sadism and violence

The U.S.-Iran War Is Illegal. Here’s Why That Matters.

If this war continues without accountability, it threatens even more dire consequences in years ahead.

Women Pay the Highest Price for U.S. ‘Wars of Liberation’

As an Iraqi, I’ve spent my life fleeing, surviving, and bearing witness to wars justified by lies. In Iran, we’re seeing yet another.

INVESTIGATIONS WITH IMPACT

Eviction By ICE?

Federal immigration agents appear to have targeted Chicago tenants in “deliberate and systematic ways.” They’re still searching for answers about their landlord’s role in the raid.

Rebecca Burns

THE WAR ON PROTEST

The War on Protest Is Here

Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action.

Adam Federman

The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders

Around the world, government forces regularly attack environmental activists with impunity—and U.S. support.

Alessandra Bergamin

More investigations

FeatureInvestigation

As Corporate Landlords Spread, a Mold Epidemic Takes Root

Thomas Birmingham

Photo of a person holding a staple gun, stapling Narcan nasal spray boxes to a tree.

As Fentanyl Overdoses Soar, LA City Crews Toss State-Funded Narcan from Encampments

LaborPalestineInvestigation

U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs of Anti-Zionists

ICE OUT!

ICE Is Conducting a Reign of Terror

ICE’s indiscriminate violence conveys that nonwhite immigrants, lawful or otherwise, have no place in Trump’s America.

Mitchell Zimmerman

Worker Organizer Abducted By Federal Agents in Minnesota

ICE-Cold Cash: Members of Congress Took More than $1.7 Million from ICE Contractors

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg and Ethan Corey

In the Fight Against ICE, Kids Are on the Front Lines

Madeline Lane-McKinley

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FeatureCover StoryInvestigation

In the Name of Security

An investigation into the everyday violence of prison strip searches, which incarcerated women say are a tool of abuse.

Khawla Nakua

FeatureInvestigation

Found, But Not Rescued

Could migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea be prosecuted as crimes against humanity?

Cannabis Is Capitalism’s Next Fix

The legal weed boom is just the first stop on capital’s search for a new frontier.

PALESTINE

"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer

A poem written before the author's death in an airstrike by the Israeli military.

Refaat Alareer

Release Mahmoud Khalil

My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner

A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Mahmoud Khalil

Why U.S. Labor Has a "Special Responsibility" to Stop Israel's Attacks on Lebanon

PalestineDispatch

Gaza’s Nightmare

Palestinian Youth Movement Vows to Make Genocide Support Too Costly for Maersk

Translations

Back of a man's head, "No Evictions" sign

La Iniciativa de Chicago para Leyes de Desalojos por “Causa Justa”

Dos Sindicatos de Inquilinos, Una Huelga de Renta

FeaturePalestine

التحولات التي شهدها مجتمع المسلمين في الولايات المتحدة بعد 20 عامًا من التاسع من أيلول وكيفية تجليها بعد السابع من تشرين الأول

إيمان عبد الهادي

Working In These Times

Train Crashes Destroyed Their Towns. Will Yours Be Next?

Host Maximillian Alvarez sits down with a panel of community members from Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and East Palestine, Ohio to discuss life inside a sacrifice zone.

Maximillian Alvarez

‘Treated Worse Than Cattle’

2,500 Tyson Workers Laid Off, Plant Shutters Overnight.

Workers’ Rights Are Plummeting Under Trump—and the World Is Taking Notice

The United States now appears on a watchlist alongside countries like Zimbabwe and the Philippines.

Luc Triangle and Cathy Feingold