In These Times

Overview

In These Times is an American progressive magazine of news and opinion published in Chicago, covering labor, economic and racial justice movements, electoral politics and culture from a democratic-socialist perspective.

History

In These Times was founded by historian James Weinstein, a lifelong socialist, who moved to Chicago in 1976 to launch the publication as a fortnightly broadsheet newspaper modeled on the early-20th-century socialist paper Appeal to Reason. Its first issue was published November 15, 1976, with founding sponsors including Julian Bond, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich and Daniel Ellsberg. Joel Bleifuss served as editor from the mid-1980s until 2022, when he left to found a new publication covering rural America; Alex Han, a longtime Chicago labor and political organizer, became the magazine's executive director in 2023, only its third editorial leader since founding. The magazine became a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News in 2014, the same year its staff unionized with the Communications Workers of America.

Notable works

Senior editor Silja J.A. Talvi won two National Council on Crime and Delinquency PASS Awards (2005, 2006) for reporting on three-strikes sentencing and prison privatization, and the magazine received the Utne Reader's Independent Press Award for Best Political Coverage in 2006.

Key personnel

Executive Director: Alex Han
Founder: James Weinstein (1926-2005)

Audience

In These Times serves readers interested in labor movements, democratic socialism and progressive politics, financed as a nonprofit through subscriptions and donations, with a circulation of more than 50,000 as of 2017.

Location and contact info

Address
Chicago, Illinois
Website
https://inthesetimes.com