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Dear Reader,In its 42nd year of publication, the magazine you help publish through your donations has continued to fulfill its mission to provide “a forum for debate about the public policies that shape our future.” We do this by introducing progressive policies and ideas into our country’s political conversation. As we see it, In These Times functions as an early and crucial part of a conveyor belt of ideas, helping the progressive movement

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In May 1978, we reported on Stickney Township, a Chicago suburb, that provided “cradle to grave” primary care at three public health clinics.

We covered the proposals of Physicians for a National Health Program, the Chicago-based group established in 1987 to support a single payer national health program. (Quentin Young, the group’s founding director and a long-time supporter of the magazine, was the primary care physician of both our founding editor & publisher James Weinstein and Barack Obama.)

Now, more than 30 years later, those seeds have taken root, and Medicare for All is at the front and center of the debate among the leading contenders in the Democratic presidential primary.

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of one administration after another, beginning with the invasion of Granada in 1983 and on to the CIA’s covert wars in Central America, both Iraq wars, and the never-ending war in Afghanistan, beginning with support of the Mujahideen. Most recently we have helped draw attention to the devastating Saudi-led, U.S. supported war on Yemen, which In These Times has been reporting on since it began in March 2015.

In These Times has also been at the forefront of supporting democratic reforms of our political system.

In the 1980s, we gave early and regular coverage of groups like Public Campaign (now Every Voice) who are working to take corporate money out of elections by advocating for public financing of political campaigns.

Since 1988, In These Times has tirelessly helped publicize the work of FairVote (formerly known as the Center for Voting and Democracy) in its efforts to bring proportional representation voting systems to the fore. What started out as a fringe idea is now being used or has been enacted and waiting first use in 12 states.

From our founding in 1976, In These Times has also been the foremost champion of an inside/outside strategy for electoral politics that harnesses the power of social movements to elect and hold to account progressive elected officials. That strategy is now being embraced by the democratic Left, and is most evident in our home town of Chicago, where this year six members of the Democratic Socialists of America have been elected to the city council.

In the following pages, we provide some 2018 editorial highlights, we report on our circulation growth, we honor the 7,617 readers who contributed last year (including the 251 members of the Publishing Consortium ), and we show how your donations were put to work.

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I N V E S T I G A T I V E R E P O R T I N G A T I N T H E S E T I M E S

W ith support from the Leonard C. Goodman Institute for Investigative Re-porting and the Puffin Foundation, in 2018

In These Times continued to publish original inves-tigations that exposed injustice, influenced public discourse and shaped legislative agendas. This year also marked the launch of our Investigative Fellows program, which provides three investigative report-ers (Eli Day, David Dayen and Valerie Vande Panne) with the resources to devote a full year to deep-dive investigations into crucial topics. Some of the 2018 investigative highlights included:

+ THE RIGHT-WING BILLIONAIRES BEHIND THE AS-SAULT ON PUBLIC UNIONS: The biggest blow to public unions in 2018 was unquestionably the Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME. While corporate media focused almost universally on the personal story of the worker who brought suit against his union, months before the ruling In These Times published an extensive investiga-

tion by Mary Bottari that exposed the network of right-wing billionaires, conservative think tanks and giant corporations that for years had con-ceived and shepherded this attack on public sec-tor unions. Bottari’s investigation was awarded the March Sidney prize from the Sidney Hillman Foundation. In addition, reporter Lisa Graves conducted an in-depth look at the Koch family’s involvement in Janus, part of the billionaire fam-ily’s 60-year campaign against unions. ( 1 )

+ IMMIGRANT DETAINEES FORCED TO WORK FOR GI-ANT CORPORATIONS FOR $1 A DAY: As the Trump administration ramped up detention of immi-grants to record highs, Victoria Law shined a light on private prisons where detainees were forced to work under appalling conditions for wages as low as $1/day. Law’s reporting also revealed that two companies, CoreCivic and GEO Group, which together donated half a million dollars to Donald Trump’s inaugura-

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tion, reaped nearly $1 billion from U.S. Im-migration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracts in 2017 alone, while ICE arrests un-der the Trump administration have soared by 43%. The New York Times invited Law to write an op-ed about the story.

+ PUBLIC PENSION FUNDS’ ROLE IN THE PUERTO RICO DEBT CRISIS: Following-up on our 2017 coverage of Puerto Rico’s dire debt crisis, which was exacerbated by Hurricane Maria and the

Trump administration’s subsequent lack of re-sponse, In These Times revealed a hidden con-flict: State and local pension funds across the United States were complicit in a bid to drain money from Puerto Rico’s pension funds. In 2018, investigative reporter Ethan Corey brought to light the conflict, providing an es-sential resource for the organizations, unions and activists working to pressure public pen-sion funds to divest from the hedge funds at the heart of the crisis. ( 2 )

L A B O R J O U R N A L I S M

F or nearLy a deCade, thanks to a grant from the Public Welfare Foundation, Working In These Times has been recognized as

an essential part of the progressive journalism eco-system, and a singularly unique source for labor re-porting. In 2018, nowhere was that more apparent than in our sustained coverage of the landmark Ja-nus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case. In These Times coverage provided crucial context by situating the case within the ongoing assault on public sector unions, while also helping chart a path forward for the labor movement.

+ REBUILDING LABOR AFTER JANUS: Shortly after the Janus ruling, In These Times published a se-ries of proposals from labor experts on how to tilt the balance of power back to workers. Bill

Fletcher Jr. described how “Just Cause” laws could be used to protect all workers. Shaun Richman explained how a federal “dues check-off ” law could help workers voluntarily donate to unions. And James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, Pe-ter Kellman made the radical case for doing away with exclusive representation. ( 4 )

+ PLACING LABOR AT THE CENTER OF THE 2020 PRESI-DENTIAL DEBATE: Miles Kampf-Lassin’s interview with Bernie Sanders in the August 2018 issue of In These Times was the first time a prospective 2020 presidential candidate was interviewed ex-clusively and at length on labor issues. (5)

+ R E P O R T I N G   F R O M   T H E   F R O N T   L I N E S   O F   T H E TEACHERS  STRIKES: Last year saw an explo-sion of rank-and-file-led teachers’ strikes in Re-

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The foundations of the estab-lished order are cracking. The day after democratic socialist Alexan-dria Ocasio-Cortez won her Demo-cratic primary, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary reported a 1,500 percent increase in searches for the word “socialism” on its website. Overall, socialism and fascism have become

its most-searched words, a tell-ing commentary.

The cornerstone of the pass-ing era is hostility toward taxes, regulation and public investment. The era began with the elec-tion of President Ronald Reagan in 1980, but it was a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who

expressed its motto most memorably. “The era of big government is over,” Clinton proclaimed in his 1996 State of the Union. The white flag of surrender has f lown over the Democratic Party ever since, with an all-too-brief interlude during Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign.

Perversely, it was a demagogic Republican who sensed the emergence of a new era and rode its cur-rents to the White House. He may be a liar and a

charlatan, but Donald Trump’s election-turning insight was that voters don’t want smaller

government. They want government that works for them—and not for corporations. In addition to xe-nophobia and white Christian nationalism, Trump campaigned on massive infrastructure investment,

B Y T H EO A N D E R S O N

THE RACE TO THE LEFTForget everything you learned about politics in the last 40 years

publican-dominated states across the country. In These Times provided vital coverage of these strikes, with on-the-ground reports and anal-ysis on the uprisings in West Virginia, Oklaho-ma, Colorado, Kentucky, California and Arizo-

na. In all, we published more than 20 stories on this surge of teachers’ strikes, featuring the voic-es of educators, labor activists and movement experts, which provide an unparalleled look into this historic wave of worker militancy. (6 )

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I n These Times Continued to produCe some of the best original reporting on the ongo-ing political revolution within the Democratic

Party, during both the run-up to the 2018 midterms and in its aftermath, as the battle for the White House in 2020 began to take shape.

+ T H E   R I S E   O F   T H E   D E M O C R AT I C   S O C I A L I STS   O F AMERICA: Kate Aronoff took an in-depth, inside look at the explosive growth of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as well as the coun-try’s rapidly changing views on capitalism and socialism, both of which are being driven by an influx of young activists and young lawmakers. In These Times was also one of the first publica-tions to profile a little-known insurgent candi-date from the Bronx, Alexandria Ocasio-Cor-tez, who has become one of the leading voices for progressive politics in the country. ( 7 )

+ C H A L L E N G I N G   T H E   D E M O C R AT I C   PA R T Y   F R O M WITHIN: In the January 2018 issue, Theo Ander-son provided one of the first looks at the wave

of left challengers in the 2018 Democratic pri-maries, propelled by groups like Justice Dem-ocrats, Our Revolution and Brand New Con-gress. Anderson highlighted this long-overdue challenge to corporate control of the Demo-cratic Party that set the stage for progressive victories in November. ( 9 )

+ DEFINING THE 2020 PRIMARY: On the heels of the November elections, In These Times was one of the first publications to highlight the emerg-ing field of 2020 candidates vying for progres-sive support, making clear that the early battle for the Democratic nomination would be fought on the Left. Our coverage has continued to focus not on the day-to-day minutiae of the horse race between candidates, but instead has brought to the forefront the big issues at stake: Medicare for All, free public college, expansion of worker rights, comprehensive immigration reform and aggressive action on climate change. ( 8 )

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I N F L U E N C I N G T H E D E B A T E

C orporate-owned, for-profit media outlets have a notoriously narrow range of topics that they’re willing to consider, which

creates an environment that stifles out-of-the-box thinking and reinforces the status quo. As a reader-supported, nonprofit publication, In These Times provides a platform for progressive propos-als and progressive thinkers that wouldn’t exist otherwise. Today that’s more important than ever, as people increasingly look for new ideas and new ways to grapple with pressing problems that the defenders of that status quo have failed to address for decades.

+ SHAPING PROGRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICY: In Au-gust, In These Times published “A Bold For-eign Policy Platform for the New Wave of Left Lawmakers” by Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Bennis argued that progressives running for office on strong domestic platforms should include progres-sive foreign policy proposals just as strong. She outlined in detail what that might look like across multiple fronts, from the Mid-dle East to Russia and beyond. She called for a progressive foreign policy that rejects U.S.

military and economic domination, and in-stead is grounded in global cooperation, hu-man rights, respect for international law and privileging diplomacy over war. ( 1 0 )

+ FIGHTING FOR FELON VOTING RIGHTS: The past few years have seen big setbacks for voting rights, but also key victories. In September, In These Times investigative fellow Eli Day profiled the efforts of activists to restore voting rights to the estimated 6.1 million Americans who are currently barred from voting due to a felo-ny convention. Two months later, Florida voters approved an amendment to the state constitu-tion that would restore voting rights to 1.4 mil-lion former felons. ( 1 1 )

+ REFORMING DEMOCRACY: Our April cover story, “Breaking the Two-Party System” highlighted a number of state-level experiments in electoral reform, in order to create a more inclusive, more representative and more responsive democracy. Featured ideas included proportional represen-tation and multi-member districts, as well as an in-depth looked at ranked choice voting, which was implemented in a Congressional race for the first time in Maine’s November election. ( 1 2 )

M A K I N G A N I M P A C T

T he mission of in These Times is to do more than inform—the goal of our journalism is effect real-world changes that help move us

closer, step by step, to the world we wall want to see. Over the past year, In These Times reporting has been a key part in numerous victories, there-

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Across the country, a new cohort of progressive Democrats is running for—and winning—elections. Most of these candidates are young, more than usual are people of color and many are women. The stunning victory of democratic socialist

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (above right) in the Democratic congressional primary in New York is perhaps the most well-known, but she is far from alone. Rashida Tlaib (third from right), a Palestinian-American woman in Detroit, just won the Democratic primary for the seat of legendary Rep. John Conyers. Tahirah Amatul-Wadud is running an insurgent campaign for Congress against a longstanding Democratic incumbent in western Massachusetts, keeping her focus on Medicare for All and civil rights. Minnesota State Rep. Ilhan Omar, a former Somali refugee, is running for Keith Ellison’s former congressional seat as an “inter-sectional feminist” and has won both the endorsement of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the Democratic primary. And there are more.

Many of these candidates highlight their movement ex-perience in their campaigns. They are champions of immi-grant rights, healthcare, student debt organizing and the fight for $15. Intersectionality has grown stronger, as the extremism of Trump’s right-wing racist assault kindles sig-nificant new links among the separate movements focused on racism, women’s rights, immigrant rights, climate, pov-erty, labor rights and other progressive issues.

But we mostly haven’t seen progressive and socialist candidates clearly link domestic issues with efforts to chal-lenge war, militarism and the war economy. There are a few exceptions: Congressional candidate and Hawaii state Rep. Kaniela Ing spoke powerfully about U.S. colonialism in Hawaii, and Virginia state Rep. Lee J. Carter has spoken

strongly against the U.S. bombing of Syria, linking current attacks with the legacy of U.S. military interventions.

It’s not that progressive leaders don’t care about inter-national issues, or that our movements are divided. Nor is it political suicide for candidates or elected officials to stake out progressive anti-war, anti-militarism positions—those positions actually have broad support within both our move-ments and  public opinion. It’s just that, too often, foreign policy feels remote from the urgency of domestic crises.

To spark that conversation, here are several core princi-ples to help movement candidates stake out clear positions on foreign policy and connect internationally focused is-sues with locally grounded ones:1. A progressive foreign policy must reject American

exceptionalism and U.S. military and economic domination. Instead, it must be grounded in global cooperation, human rights and respect for international law.

2. Diplomacy must replace military action in every venue, with professional diplomats rather than the White House’s political appointees in charge.

3. There is no military solution to terrorism. The global war on terror must be ended.

4. The war economy has distorted our society at home. We must reverse our spending priorities.

5. U.S. actions—military, economic and climate-related—have been a driving force in displacing people around the world. We have an enormous obligation to provide humanitarian support and refuge for those who have been driven from their homes.

The next two pages highlight specific progressive positions on U.S. engagements around the world.

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A Foreign Policy Manifesto for the Left

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by helping rein in systemic abuse on the part of corporations, the Trump administration and the Democratic Party:

+ THWARTING TRUMP’S COAL BAILOUT: On Dec. 6, 2017, InTheseTimes.com published leaked photographs that showed Bob Murray, a coal industry executive whose company stood to benefit greatly from a Department of Energy (DOE) draft rule on grid reliability, privately lobbying Energy Secretary Rick Perry for such a rule. Within 24 hours of publication, the Fed-eral Energy Regulatory Commission decid-ed to postpone its decision pending further review, and on January 8, 2018, the plan was voted down, 5-0. This was a huge victory for clean energy, and for anyone who cares about climate change. It was also a reminder of the power and importance of investigative report-ing. Both the New York Times and the Washing-ton Post cited In These Times’ work. ( 1 3 )

+ TURNING UP THE HEAT ON ICE: Due to U.S. im-migration enforcement’s extensive use of out-sourcing, activists are increasingly targeting the corporations that make immigrant detention possible. David Dayen’s October 2018 cover sto-ry looked “Below the Surface of ICE” to expose the companies that are profiting from immigrant detention, naming more than two dozen pri-vate companies that are complicit in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants. In March of 2019, J.P. Morgan Chase, which has provided at least $254 million in debt financing to two private prison giants mentioned in Day-en’s investigation, CoreCivic and GEO Group,

cut off that money spigot, stating “we will no longer bank the private prison industry.” ( 1 4 )

+ SHINING A LIGHT ON ONE OF AMERICA’S HIDDEN WARS: Throughout 2018, InTheseTimes.com published more than a dozen original pieces on the U.S. involvement in Saudi Arabia’s dev-astating war on Yemen, including reporting by Yemeni journalists on the ground. This relent-less reporting helped bring attention to a pre-viously overlooked war that has created the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. In No-vember, The New York Times Magazine featured the war in Yemen on its cover for the first time, as part of a dramatic shift in the media’s cov-erage. In April of 2019, Congress invoked the War Powers Resolution for the first time in his-tory to end U.S. support for the war. Trump ve-toed the bill, but the effort to end U.S. involve-ment has not let up. (15)

+ REFORMING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: In June 2016, In These Times published a special inves-tigation by Branko Marcetic into the secret his-tory of “superdelegates”—712 party officials who had the power to do decide the party nom-ination for president, regardless of who voters chose. Marcetic’s research revealed not just that this system was deeply undemocratic, but that it was intentionally so, in order to prevent insur-gent candidates (like Bernie Sanders) from be-coming the nominee. This investigation helped fuel criticism of the superdelegate system, and in August 2018 the Democratic Party agreed to dramatically reduce the power and influence of “superdelegates” in selecting the party’s presi-dential nominee in 2020 and beyond.

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INSTITUTE FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING AND OTHER PROGRAMS

(WORKING IN THESE TIMES AND RURAL AMERICA IN THESE TIMES)

19%INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS

44%SALARIES, TAXES,

BENEFITS, CONTRACTORS

14%EDITORIALEXPENSES

7%FUNDRAISING

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31%PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, CIRCULATION

19%PUBLISHING CONSORTIUM

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$399,915Total donations from the 251 members

of the Publishing Consortium in 2018

36%of General Operations

Support is from the Publishing Consortium

P U B L I S H I N G C O N S O R T I U M

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IN THESE T IMES GRE W I T S DONOR BASE AND INCRE ASED CON T R IBU TOR ENG AGEMEN T

16%SUBSCRIPTION

AND ADVERTISING REVENUE

1%BEQUESTS AND OTHER INCOME

19%FOUNDATION AND GRANT SUPPORT

(88% FROM THE PUFFIN FOUNDATION)

27%LEONARD C. GOODMAN

INSTITUTE FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING AND OTHER PROGRAMS

(WORKING IN THESE TIMES AND RURAL AMERICA IN THESE TIMES)

19%INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS

44%SALARIES, TAXES,

BENEFITS, CONTRACTORS

14%EDITORIALEXPENSES

7%FUNDRAISING

EXPENSES

4%ADMINISTRATION

31%PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, CIRCULATION

19%PUBLISHING CONSORTIUM

DONATIONS

2018 INCOME 2018 EXPENSES

1 2Donors in 2018

were new.

out of every x 2

The number of active Sustainers doubled from

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