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In These Times
Magazine focusing on movements for social, economic, and environmental justice.
Articles from Vol. 34, No. 12, December
All Is Not (Yet) Lost
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IT'S THE MORNING AFTER ELECTION Day, the Armageddon-for-Obama the media have been predicting since about five months after the president took office. And it was indeed a Republican sweep, especially in the House. Now, brace yourselves for endless, often...
A New Blueprint for Change
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A revived progressive program must be built year-round, at the local levelTHE FINGER POINTING AND soul searching has begun. Most of this post-mortem discussion is focusing on a narrow period of time, asking what went wrong with the Obama administration...
Another Sit-In Success
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After Chicago Public School (CPS) officials made plans to tear down a field house at Whittier Elementary School in the city's Pilsen neighborhood, parents from the Mexican-American community didn't take it lying down. Instead, they decided to take a...
A Wasted Crisis
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How the environmental movement missed the moment on climate changeWhen BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers, the ensuing environmental crisis could have been a transformative moment for our nation's energy policy. It was...
Barbarism with A Human Face
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THE RECENT EXPULSION OF ILLEGAL Roma ("Gypsies") from France back to Romania sparked protests across Europe from both the liberal media and top politicians - and not only those on the Left. The expulsions, however, proceeded - and they are the tip of...
Changing the Daley Routine
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As a Chicago dynasty ends, progressives weigh their optionsNo political dynasty has ruled a major American city as long as the Daleys of Chicagomayors since 1955 with an interregnum of 12 years. In September, Richard M. Daley announced he would not seek...
China's New Lost Generation
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Dissidents struggle against state-induced historical amnesiaNEAR DAWN ON JUNE 4, 1989, Liu Xiaobo helped save the lives of thousands of university students in Beijing. The night before, conservative Communist Party leaders such as Deng Xiaoping and Li...
Dear ITT Ideologist
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Dear ITT Ideologist,I am the debonair but mercurial satrap of a war-ravaged central Asian nation. Having become dependent on the kindness of both neighbors and strangers, I receive regular bagsful of moolah from both the U.S. and Iranian governments...
Debating 'The Change We Seek'
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THE 2010 MIDTERM ELECTION results make one point abundantly clear: The Democrats are doing something wrong. Yes, midterm losses were expected, given the dismal state of the economy.Yes, secret corporate donations corrupted the political process.Yes,...
In Defense of the Public
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On a recent weekend evening graced with unseasonably warm weather, I invited a few friends and family members to spend the twilight hours at the public park near where I live on the south .side of Chicago. The park, situated on a tiny promontory that...
Invasion of the Land Grabbers
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Suppose that, one day, a foreign investor decided to buy a vast tract of fertile land in the United States. Suppose all that is grown or produced on that land, and all profits made, would be shipped directly overseas. Worse, imagine that those Americans...
Let Them Drink Soda
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SURELY IT IS PATERNALISTIC TO bar the poor from using food stamps to buy soda - as New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is advocating. Clearly they have the same right as everyone else to eat crap. Certainly a soda ban sits on a slippery slope that...
Notes from the Moral Underground
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Persistent high unemployment, rising poverty and shrinking state budgets have made insecurity the norm for America's working class. Sociologist Lisa Dodson, who teaches at Boston College, has spent years studying the struggles of the growing ranks of...
'Old Times There Are Not Forgotten'
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CONSIDER THIS UNCANNY PHOTOGRAPH OF the thriving urban farm located behind razor barbed wire at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. It de'mands and resists interpretation. The image calls to mind, in a perturbing manner, the histories of slavery, plantation...
Radioactivist Vindicated
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Check out Wikipedia's fist of nuclear whistleblowers and you'll find an honor roll of nuclear industry insiders - plant workers, scientists, chemists, engineers, laboratory workers, among others - who raised concerns out about the risks to public safety...
The End of Indie?
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MUSICUNDER THE BANNER of the 2010 CMJ Music Marathon, the annual New York City music festival, an October 20 Madison Square Garden concert featured two bands that dissolve the distinction between "indie" and "mainstream." French rock band Phoenix, the...
War News Unfit for Print
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Wikileaks revelations clearer outside United StatesWHEN FIVE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS - The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and Al Jazeera - were granted access to Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs before they were published online on October 22,...
What We Lost after We Won in 2008
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An anti-war activist explains what the Democratic establishment fails to understandOn a sleepy Sunday in September 2002, I was awakened by a call from Bettylu Saltzman, a longtime progressive activist and fundraiser in Chicago, who, disturbed by a dinner...
