21 November 2020
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Biden’s First Priority: Undo the Damage Done by Trump
President Biden can make progressive appointments and executive actions—no matter who controls the Senate.
BY RICK PERLSTEIN
Joe Biden Owes His Victory to the Left, No Matter What the Democratic Party Says
Organizers, not consultants, delivered key states like Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia. Democrats ignore this reality at their peril.
BY REBECCA CHOWDHURY
The Women Activists Rejecting Biden’s Pro-War “Feminism”
Why anti-war feminists don’t want hawkish women like Michèle Flournoy in positions of power.
BY SARAH LAZARE
Biden Must End the War He Helped Start
Yemenis call on the president-elect to stop the onslaught.
BY SHIREEN AL-ADEIMI
The Message from this Election? Bring the “Ruckus on the Democratic Party.”
Don’t believe the establishment: The 2020 election results are a vindication of the Left’s inside-outside strategy.
BY JOEL BLEIFUSS
Democrats Are Scared to Use Their Best Leverage
They need to start holding hostage the things that Republicans hold dear
BY HAMILTON NOLAN
Democratic Party leaders have clung to a failed centrist political strategy. It’s time to move on—by elevating progressives.
BY ELIAS ALSBERGAS
Dean Spade on How Mutual Aid Will Help Us Survive Disaster
We have to fundamentally reimagine community if we want to avoid “intensive, uneven suffering followed by species extinction.”
BY CLARA LIANG
The MAGA Army Tries to Drag America to Hell
Dear Leader Trump’s toy soldiers make one last stand on the streets of Washington, DC.
BY HAMILTON NOLAN
My Grueling Search for Asylum From an Undeclared War
A member of the Honduran resistance movement tells his story.
BY JOSÉ LÓPEZ
What You Need to Know About BDS
On the global, nonviolent movement for Palestinian freedom.
BY IN THESE TIMES EDITORS
Republicans Never Wanted a Fair Fight
Lessons from the tumultuous election in 2000 are still relevant 20 years later.
BY IN THESE TIMES EDITORS
WORKING IN THESE TIMES
A new report commissioned by Bernie Sanders shows that corporations are soaking up profits—while paying workers so little they depend on government assistance to survive.
BY JEFF SCHUHRKE
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