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Dayton Martindale

Why Keith Ellison and Jeremy Corbyn Think We Should Cap CEO Pay

Does it make sense for a boss to earn more than 200 times what a worker does? The case for a maximum wage. MORE

Views · May 29, 2018
Actually, We Don’t Need To Grow the Economy

Protecting the planet requires scaling down, not up. MORE

Culture · December 19, 2018
Portrait of the Environmentalist as a Young Arsonist

Abby Geni's new novel, The Wildlands, explores means and ends in the fight for animal and Earth liberation. MORE

Culture · September 4, 2018
Is Your Job Bullshit? David Graeber on Capitalism’s Endless Busywork

In his new book, the anarchist and anthropologist looks at why almost 40 percent of us think our jobs are meaningless. MORE

Features · May 10, 2018
Is Your Job Bullshit? David Graeber on Capitalism’s Endless Busywork

David Graeber had a hypothesis. The anthropologist grew up working-class in New York, and while his scholarship garnered accolades, he’s never felt at home in the world of academia. From his... MORE

Working · May 10, 2018
Universal Basic Income: A Primer

Here’s why everyone’s demanding free money from the government. MORE

Culture · April 25, 2018
Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration

In an interview, the leftist sci-fi author argues that democratic space science is crucial to saving Earth. MORE

Features · April 22, 2018
Ta-Nehisi Coates Made the Case for Reparations—Here’s Who Is Making the Plan

Black scholars and organizers are thinking beyond just a check. MORE

Features · April 9, 2018
A Brief Case for Guaranteed Housing

Why housing should be a human right. MORE

Culture · March 6, 2018
A Socialist Case for Curbing Consumption To Stop Climate Change

Combating extractive capitalism is crucial. So is taking the bus. MORE

Views · January 30, 2018
That Time When Virginia Woolf Called for Wages for Housework

Born 136 years ago today, Virginia Woolf was a pioneering feminist thinker who rejected the label “feminist”; she supported the Labour Party while showing little solidarity with her own servants. Her politics,... MORE

Working · January 25, 2018
Does the Natural World Needs Its Own Bill of Rights?

Why environmentalists are working to grant rivers and mountains legal status. MORE

Culture · January 24, 2018
A Brief Case for Prison Abolition

We know prisons are racist, classist and abusive. Are they also obsolete? MORE

Culture · December 27, 2017
Building an Alternative to Capitalism From the Ground Up

A primer on the solidarity economy. MORE

Culture · November 29, 2017
Want a Radical Alternative to Trump’s Immigration Agenda? Try Open Borders.

It's not just a pipe dream. MORE

Culture · November 1, 2017
Single-Payer Healthcare In 5 Minutes Or Less

Everyone is getting behind this prescription for a better healthcare system. But what is it exactly? MORE

Culture · September 13, 2017
Democratic Socialism in 5 Minutes or Less

From Rosa Luxemburg to Bernie Sanders, a beginner’s guide. MORE

Culture · August 24, 2017
The Abolitionist of Walden Pond

Two hundred years after his birth, Henry David Thoreau is as relevant as ever. MORE

Culture · July 12, 2017
Don’t Mine What’s Ours

How a public-lands populism can fight Trump and the GOP. MORE

Views · May 24, 2017
Toward a Real-Life Zootopia

How a fuller conception of freedom can help humans and others coexist. MORE

Culture · March 28, 2017
Defending the Commons: 40 Years of In These Times

As the corporate assault on the environment grow, so does the movement against it. MORE

Features · November 27, 2016
An Indigenous Organizer at Standing Rock Speaks on Police Repression, Climate Chaos and Donald Trump

The water protectors at Standing Rock are still defiant in opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. MORE

Features · November 21, 2016
Listen, Omnivore! A Vegan’s Plea for Common Ground

Next Tuesday, sandwiched between ballot measures on charter schools and marijuana, Massachusetts voters will decide whether or not to pass one of the more progressive animal welfare measures in the country. &ldquo... MORE

Rural America · October 31, 2016
We Got the Whole World in Our Hands, E.O. Wilson Says We Should Give Half of it Back

I want to get excited about Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, both the book that came out this month and the idea behind it. Prominent conservation biologist E.O. Wilson... MORE

Rural America · March 23, 2016
Rebecca Solnit on Climate Change and How Political Activism Can Help Us Find Happiness

The longtime writer and activist discusses the hope found in uncertainty, her experience at the Paris climate talks, the role of the writer and more. MORE

Features · March 11, 2016
Lessons from the Original War on Coal: Class Conflict and the Fossil Economy

John R. Leifchild, author of Our Coal and Our Coal-Pits; The People in Them, and the Scenes Around Them, saw in that unassuming black rock the underpinnings of mid-19th century Britain&rsquo... MORE

Rural America · February 6, 2016
Veganic: Do Organic Farming and Urban Food Justice Have Room for Animal Rights?

“People always say they’re going to go get local, grass-fed beef, but no one says they’re going to their SPCA to get their local dog meat,” says... MORE

Rural America · December 14, 2015
Our Planet is Facing a New Mass Extinction: Can This Book Help Stop It?

There have been five known mass extinctions in Earth’s history, the most recent of which took out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Uncovering this history was a scientific triumph, but if... MORE

Rural America · September 20, 2015
Human Ego and the Grizzly Bear: Is the West Big Enough?

I recently went hiking in Yellowstone National Park. It is a place bursting with lakes and forests and canyons so large they threaten to swallow you up—at times, I found myself... MORE

Rural America · August 9, 2015
Vatican Country: American Farmers on the Agricultural Message of Pope Francis

A July 1 press conference at the Vatican on climate change and inequality featured mostly the figures you’d expect: the cardinal in charge of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the... MORE

Rural America · July 28, 2015
The Stolen Children of Maine: Native Wabanaki Seek Truth, Reconciliation Amidst a Cultural Genocide

My great-great-grandfather was brought into Taos, a city in what is now New Mexico, as a young Navajo boy around 1860. Slavery would soon be abolished, but at the time indigenous bondage was widespread.... MORE

Rural America · July 18, 2015
How Columbia Became the First University to Divest from Private Prisons

Thanks to relentless student pressure, more than a year of rallies, protests and sit-ins proved too much to ignore. MORE

Act Locally · July 17, 2015
Beating Swords into Plowshares, Poison Gas into Pesticides

In the midst of World War I, Rudyard Kipling declared, “There are only two divisions in the world to-day—human beings and Germans.” That mindset was not unique to Kipling,... MORE

Rural America · July 5, 2015
Ag-Gag Laws: The Less You Know The Better

Since a Republican majority was elected to the North Carolina state legislature in 2012, Gov. Pat McCrory (R) has signed into law bills that cut unemployment benefits, restrict voting rights, limit health care access... MORE

Rural America · June 19, 2015