"By engaging in this very public, and risky, protest tactic, the hunger strikers are picking up on a long tradition of calculated starvation as a method of forcing a public confrontation with crises." Shane Burley בד inthesetimes.com/article/jewish…

New from me at ⁦In These Times⁩: Six activists with ⁦JVP Chicago⁩ have announced an indefinite hunger strike to end the assault on Gaza. I talk about the history and effectiveness of hunger strikes, particularly in their home city. inthesetimes.com/article/jewish…

"Hunger strikes have deep roots in Chicago—and across the country—as escalations in campaigns for justice." inthesetimes.com/article/jewish…

Chicago Jewish Activists Embark on Indefinite Hunger Strike Over Gaza - In These Times inthesetimes.com/article/jewish…

Honored to be appointed Rat Czar by Zohran Kwame Mamdani campaign. If we elect Zohran I will be in charge of rat stuff. First thing we will implement is shooting the rats.

5 members of JVP Chicago are entering their second week of an indefinite hunger strike, in which they're taking in no calories. They're demanding the US end military support for Israel, and Israel stop starving Gaza. Here is a statement from 1 of the hunger strikers, Avey Rips.

i can't believe a good thing happened

Mamdani wins the primary with hearty support from the Jewish left, cross-endorses with Brad Lander, wins the Upper West Side, wins Dan Goldman's district, gets Jerry Nadler's endorsement The NYT:

Chicago folks, catch us tonight at a live episode of The Dig on 2 years of a movement-elected mayor If you can't make it, we got you -- here's a deep dive by asha ransby-sporn on the Brandon Johnson admin and why contesting for power never ends: inthesetimes.com/article/mayor-…

For The Guardian, I wrote about the homes of Black writers like Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Lucille Clifton and the urgency to preserve them lest their literary legacies be erased & forgotten forever. theguardian.com/culture/2025/j…

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

In a state with one of the most challenging referendum processes in the nation, organizers gathered more than double the number of required signatures to give voters a chance to defeat an anti-union bill. inthesetimes.com/article/utah-l…

"The real solution, then, is not deportations but full rights for all workers. That means not only citizenship rights but labor rights, too." inthesetimes.com/article/farmwo…

Today is the last day to apply for a fall internship at In These Times! If you have a strong interest in progressive politics and independent journalism, email materials to [email protected] for a chance to train with our award-winning team! inthesetimes.com/internships

Trump’s immigration crackdown and a growing union effort are transforming Upstate New York into a battleground over who will grow our food and under what conditions. inthesetimes.com/article/farmwo…

🎉 Huge congrats to Alessandra Bergamin for winning the 2025 ASJA Award for Environmental/Climate/Sustainability reporting! Her chilling, masterfully reported piece on death squads targeting environmental defenders is a must-read. 📖 👉 inthesetimes.com/article/brando…

Molly Crabapple🇵🇷 National Students for Justice in Palestine Momodou ✊🏿 maryam alwan🇵🇸 .Joseph Bullington reports on the future of farmwork, quoting United Farm Workers: Deportation raids are “an attempt to divide the working class & suppress labor organizing so the exploitation can continue.” inthesetimes.com/article/farmwo…

Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship | In These Times In this reprint of “Peril” and “Racism and Fascism,” Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism’s reach inthesetimes.com/article/toni-m…

Today, J.P. explains the necessity of "ending a system in which only those deemed ​'productive' or ​'deserving' are allowed to live well." inthesetimes.com/article/health…

This month’s In These Times features Health Communism in J.P.’s Big Ideas column—we appreciate the care taken in engaging our work & translating it into such a great distillation (no easy feat lol)—health communism is the antidote to MAHA & is needed now more than ever