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| Categories | Progressive news and opinion |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 50,000(as of 2017[update]) |
| Publisher | Christopher Hass |
| Founder | James Weinstein |
| Founded | November 1976; 49 years ago (1976-11) |
| First issue | November 1976 (1976-11) |
| Company | Institute for Public Affairs |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Chicago,Illinois, U.S. |
| Language | English |
| Website | inthesetimes |
| ISSN | 0160-5992 |
| OCLC | 60620754 |
In These Times is an Americanpolitically progressive monthly magazine of news and opinion published inChicago,Illinois.[1] It was established as abroadsheet-format fortnightly newspaper in 1976 byJames Weinstein, a lifelongsocialist. It investigates alleged corporate and government wrongdoing, covers international affairs, and has a cultural section. It regularly reports on labor, economic and racial justice movements,environmental issues,feminism,grassroots democracy,minority communities, and themedia.
Weinstein was the publication's founding editor and publisher; its current publisher isChristopher Hass.[2][3] As of 2017[update], it had a circulation of over 50,000.[4] As anonprofit organization, the magazine is financed through subscriptions and donations.
In 1976, Weinstein, a historian and former editor ofStudies on the Left, launched the politically progressive journalIn These Times. He sought to model the newsweekly on the early-20th-century socialist newspaper theAppeal to Reason. For some time, its tagline was 'The Socialist Newsweekly'. "We intend to speak tocorporate capitalism as the great issue of our time, and to socialism as the popular movement that will meet it" he told theChicago Sun Times on the eve of the first issue's release.[5] While Weinstein himself was involved with both theNew American Movement and theDemocratic Socialist Organizing Committee, he wanted the journal to be independent of any onepolitical party orfaction. Thus, over the years it has published a wide variety of contributors – fromanarchists, tounion members, tocentrists.
During the 1980s, the publication became well known for its investigative reporting of theIran–Contra affair. It has since broken stories on the deliberate destruction of Iraqi water treatment plants by US forces during the firstGulf War (1990–1991),global warming, and on the emergence ofmad cow disease.
During the 1980s, and up to 1992, it was a biweekly newspaper and a democratic-socialist competitor to theNational Guardian, which was a biweekly newspaper that was closer toMarxism–Leninism.[6][7]
Senior editorSilja J. A. Talvi won twoNational Council on Crime and Delinquency PASS Awards (2005, 2006) for her reporting on the impact ofthree strikes sentencing onAfrican-American men, and on the trend towardprivatization of the prison system.
The magazine was awarded theUtne Reader'sIndependent Press Award for Best Political Coverage in 2006.[8]
Two of the magazine's longest-running columns areSalim Muwakkil'sThe Third Coast, covering race relations, andSusan J. Douglas'sBack Talk, a critical review of the mass media.
David Moberg has reported on labor andpolitical economy for the magazine since its inception in 1976.
Joel Bleifuss was editor from the mid-1980s until April 2022.[9] More stories from his column,The First Stone, have been included in Project Censored's "Top 25 Censored Stories of the Year" than of any other journalist.
Other columnists includeH. Candace Gorman,Laura S. Washington andTerry J. Allen.
Senior editors include Allen,Patricia Aufderheide, Douglas, Moberg, Muwakkil andDavid Sirota.[10]
Notable contributors to the magazine have included:
In These Times was the latest in a series of vehicles launched by James Weinstein to regain the initiative for left social democracy. ... ITT's immediate objective was to supplant the Guardian as the country's pre-eminent left newspaper.
