In These Times

10/16/2025

As ICE wreaks chaos and violence in neighborhoods across Chicago, teams of rapid responders are protecting residents and challenging Trump’s attempted occupation by fighting fear through solidarity.

10/16/2025

The trillions of dollars in our retirement savings are enriching the ultra-wealthy while they ravage our communities. A mass movement led by workers and pensioners can turn off the tap.

The trillions of dollars in our retirement savings are enriching the ultra wealthy while they ravage our communities. A mass movement led by workers and pensioners can turn off the tap.

10/16/2025

Healthcare for millions is on the chopping block.

As the government shutdown drags on, Republican lawmakers are fighting to cut Medicaid and raise healthcare costs for working Americans — all while handing out massive tax breaks to billionaires.

For parents like Alexis Cortes, whose daughter relies on Medicaid, this isn’t politics — it’s survival.

“The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ calls for massive cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, and early childhood education programs,” she warns.

If Congress doesn’t act soon, 24 million people could see their health insurance premiums double — and millions more could lose coverage altogether.

The stakes couldn’t be higher: healthcare, food assistance, education, even cancer research are all on the line.

It’s time for the 80% of Americans who reject these cruel cuts to speak up and demand that our leaders put healthcare over billionaires.

Karen Dolan from the Institute for Policy Studies reports on Republican lawmakers prioritizing tax breaks for the wealthy.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/healthcare-crisis-government-shutdown-medicaid-one-big-beautiful-bill

10/15/2025

Today, Shane Burley unpacks how the Right’s response to the murder of Charlie Kirk , which is, of course, unequivocally horrible, reveals just how disingenuous its advocacy of free speech really is.

The Right doesn't really care about free speech, and their reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk proves it.

10/15/2025

Weathering Backlash with Care

In the late 1930s, a group of Appalachian parents and teachers in rural Tennessee built something quietly radical — a free, socialist nursery school.

Run by the Highlander Folk School, this community-based early childhood program became a seedbed for the Southern labor movement. It offered care, food, and education for children — and solidarity, organizing, and courage for parents.

Despite Red Scare attacks, FBI scrutiny, and Jim Crow hostility, the Highlander Nursery School stood as a living experiment in cooperative care and resistance. It reminds us that building care infrastructure — not just protests — sustains movements through backlash.

Read Briana M. Bivens on how care work can be movement work.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/highlander-nursery-education-movement-history-trump

10/15/2025

Healthcare access in this country is in grave danger — and your wallet could be, too. Those facts are key to understanding the latest government shutdown.

Karen Dolan from the Institute for Policy Studies reports on Republican lawmakers prioritizing tax breaks for the wealthy.

Healthcare costs are about to skyrocket for working Americans, but Republican lawmakers are prioritizing tax breaks for the wealthy.

10/15/2025

The trillions of dollars in workers’ pension funds ***money meant to guarantee dignity in retirement*** are being used by billionaires and private equity firms to gouge rents, fund weapons, fuel apartheid, and deepen inequality at home and abroad.

Sare Myklebust and Saqib Bhatti of Action Center on Race and the Economy map the path forward on how workers and unions can reclaim control of their capital and stop the flow of our money to those destroying our communities and the planet.

It won’t be easy, but it’s already happening—from Oregon teachers fighting pension investments in Israeli spyware, to University of California workers demanding divestment from corporate landlords and war profiteers.

This is one example of fighting fascism, building solidarity, and investing in a just future.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/strategy-to-stop-billionaires-pensions-retirement-gaza-palestine

10/15/2025

Appalachian coal workers suffer from black lung, an incurable respiratory disease killing its victims slowly & painfully.

Kim Kelly reports on how the Trump administration is delaying a life-saving safety rule, while claiming to stand with miners.

The administration keeps delaying a life-saving safety rule—while claiming to love coal miners.

10/14/2025

Most people tune out when they hear the word pensions—and that’s exactly how Wall Street likes it.

But public pension funds aren’t boring at all. They hold trillions of dollars in worker earnings, money that could either fuel climate chaos and inequality or build a more just and sustainable economy.

In this roundtable, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, CalPERS board member and SEIU Local 521 President Mullissa Willette, and Evan Sutton of unpack the power and contradictions of pensions—how workers’ retirement security can (and must) align with climate action, equity, and democracy.

“Our fiduciary obligation is not only a legal obligation, but a deep expression of our commitment to public sector workers.” —Brad Lander

https://inthesetimes.com/article/roundtable-pensions-unions-brad-landers-

10/14/2025

Since unleashing ​“Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicagoland on September 8, the Department of Homeland Security claims it has detained 800 people, though local organizers caution against taking these figures as fact, given the agency’s history of falsehoods. But they do say agents are increasingly using extreme force.

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

10/13/2025

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10/13/2025

This , the call for echoes louder than ever. As Nick Tilsen and Krystal Two Bulls wrote in 2020, returning the land is not just about the past—it’s about dismantling the systems of colonization, militarism, and white supremacy that still shape our world today.

Those same systems are at work in Gaza, where a genocide is being carried out on stolen land. The struggle for Indigenous sovereignty here is bound up with the Palestinian struggle for liberation there. Both demand an end to occupation—and a future built on repair, not empire.

Read this still-urgent piece from In These Times on what true decolonization means, and why the Land Back movement is inseparable from global movements for justice.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/indigenous-peoples-day-landback-native-justice