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ith support from the Leonard C. tion by Mary Bottari that exposed the network of Goodman Institute for Investigative Re- right-wing billionaires, conservative think tanks W porting and the Puffin Foundation, in 2018 and giant corporations that for years had con- In These Times continued to publish original inves- ceived and shepherded this attack on public sec- tigations that exposed injustice, influenced public tor unions. Bottari’s investigation was awarded discourse and shaped legislative agendas. This year the March Sidney prize from the Sidney Hillman also marked the launch of our Investigative Fellows Foundation. In addition, reporter Lisa Graves program, which provides three investigative report- conducted an in-depth look at the Koch family’s ers (Eli Day, David Dayen and Valerie Vande Panne) involvement in Janus, part of the billionaire fam- with the resources to devote a full year to deep-dive ily’s 60-year campaign against unions. (1) investigations into crucial topics. Some of the 2018 ++IMMIGRANT DETAINEES FORCED TO WORK FOR GI- investigative highlights included: ANT CORPORATIONS FOR $1 A DAY: As the Trump ++THE RIGHT-WING BILLIONAIRES BEHIND THE AS- administration ramped up detention of immi- SAULT ON PUBLIC UNIONS: The biggest blow to grants to record highs, Victoria Law shined a public unions in 2018 was unquestionably the light on private prisons where detainees were Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME. While forced to work under appalling conditions for corporate media focused almost universally on wages as low as $1/day. Law’s reporting also the personal story of the worker who brought revealed that two companies, CoreCivic and suit against his union, months before the ruling GEO Group, which together donated half a In These Times published an extensive investiga- million dollars to Donald Trump’s inaugura-

- 4 - tion, reaped nearly $1 billion from U.S. Im- Trump administration’s subsequent lack of re- migration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sponse, In These Times revealed a hidden con- contracts in 2017 alone, while ICE arrests un- flict: State and local pension funds across the der the Trump administration have soared by United States were complicit in a bid to drain 43%. The New York Times invited Law to write money from Puerto Rico’s pension funds. an op-ed about the story. In 2018, investigative reporter Ethan Corey brought to light the conflict, providing an es- PUBLIC PENSION FUNDS’ ROLE IN THE PUERTO ++ sential resource for the organizations, unions RICO DEBT CRISIS: Following-up on our 2017 and activists working to pressure public pen- coverage of Puerto Rico’s dire debt crisis, which sion funds to divest from the hedge funds at the was exacerbated by Hurricane Maria and the heart of the crisis. (2)

LABOR JOURNALISM

or nearly a decade, thanks to a Fletcher Jr. described how “Just Cause” laws grant from the Public Welfare Foundation, could be used to protect all workers. Shaun F Working In These Times has been recognized as Richman explained how a federal “dues check- an essential part of the progressive journalism eco- off” law could help workers voluntarily donate system, and a singularly unique source for labor re- to unions. And James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, Pe- porting. In 2018, nowhere was that more apparent ter Kellman made the radical case for doing than in our sustained coverage of the landmark Ja- away with exclusive representation. (4) nus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case. In These Times ++PLACING LABOR AT THE CENTER OF THE 2020 PRESI- coverage provided crucial context by situating the DENTIAL DEBATE: Miles Kampf-Lassin’s interview case within the ongoing assault on public sector with Bernie Sanders in the August 2018 issue of unions, while also helping chart a path forward for In These Times was the first time a prospective the labor movement. 2020 presidential candidate was interviewed ex- ++REBUILDING LABOR AFTER JANUS: Shortly after clusively and at length on labor issues. (5) the Janus ruling, In These Times published a se- ++REPORTING FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE ries of proposals from labor experts on how to TEACHERS STRIKES: Last year saw an explo- tilt the balance of power back to workers. Bill sion of rank-and-file-led teachers’ strikes in Re-

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- 5 - publican-dominated states across the country. na. In all, we published more than 20 stories on In These Times provided vital coverage of these this surge of teachers’ strikes, featuring the voic- strikes, with on-the-ground reports and anal- es of educators, labor activists and movement ysis on the uprisings in West Virginia, Oklaho- experts, which provide an unparalleled look into ma, Colorado, Kentucky, California and Arizo- this historic wave of worker militancy. (6)

ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS

n These Times continued to produce of left challengers in the 2018 Democratic pri- some of the best original reporting on the ongo- maries, propelled by groups like Justice Dem- I ing political revolution within the Democratic ocrats, Our Revolution and Brand New Con- Party, during both the run-up to the 2018 midterms gress. Anderson highlighted this long-overdue and in its aftermath, as the battle for the White challenge to corporate control of the Demo- House in 2020 began to take shape. cratic Party that set the stage for progressive victories in November. (9) ++THE RISE OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA: Kate Aronoff took an in-depth, inside ++DEFINING THE 2020 PRIMARY: On the heels of look at the explosive growth of the Democratic the November elections, In These Times was one Socialists of America (DSA) as well as the coun- of the first publications to highlight the emerg- try’s rapidly changing views on capitalism and ing field of 2020 candidates vying for progres- socialism, both of which are being driven by an sive support, making clear that the early battle influx of young activists and young lawmakers. for the Democratic nomination would be fought In These Times was also one of the first publica- on the Left. Our coverage has continued to focus tions to profile a little-known insurgent candi- not on the day-to-day minutiae of the horse race date from the Bronx, Alexandria Ocasio-Cor- between candidates, but instead has brought to tez, who has become one of the leading voices the forefront the big issues at stake: Medicare for progressive politics in the country. (7 ) for All, free public college, expansion of worker rights, comprehensive immigration reform and ++CHALLENGING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FROM aggressive action on climate change. (8) WITHIN: In the January 2018 issue, Theo Ander- son provided one of the first looks at the wave

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- 6 - THE RACE TO THE LEFT Forget everything you learned about politics in the last 40 years

he foundations of the estab- expressed its motto most memorably. “The era lished order are cracking. The day of big government is over,” Clinton proclaimed after democratic socialist Alexan- in his 1996 State of the Union. The white flag of dria Ocasio-Cortez won her Demo- surrender has flown over the Democratic Party cratic primary, the Merriam-Webster ever since, with an all-too-brief interlude during Dictionary reported a 1,500 percent Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign. increase in searches for the word Perversely, it was a demagogic Republican who “socialism” on its website. Overall, sensed the emergence of a new era and rode its cur- socialism and fascism have become rents to the White House. He may be a liar and a its most-searched words, a tell- charlatan, but Donald Trump’s Ting commentary. BY THEO ANDERSON election-turning insight was The cornerstone of the pass- that voters don’t want smaller ing era is hostility toward taxes, regulation and government. They want government that works for public investment. The era began with the elec- them—and not for corporations. In addition to xe- tion of President Ronald Reagan in 1980, but it nophobia and white Christian nationalism, Trump was a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who campaigned on massive infrastructure investment,

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BY PHYLLIS BENNIS A Foreign Policy INFLUENCING THE DEBATE orporate-owned, for-profit media military and economic domination, and in- outlets have a notoriously narrow range of stead is grounded in global cooperation, hu- topics that they’re willing to consider, which man rights, respect for international law and Manifesto for the Left Ccreates an environment that stifles out-of-the- privileging diplomacy over war. (10) box thinking and reinforces the status quo. As a ++FIGHTING FOR FELON VOTING RIGHTS: The past cross the country, a new cohort strongly against the U.S. bombing of Syria,reader-supported, linking current nonprofit publication, In These few years have seen big setbacks for voting of progressive Democrats is running for— attacks with the legacy of U.S. militaryTimes interventions. provides a platform for progressive propos- rights, but also key victories. In September, In and winning—elections. Most of these It’s not that progressive leaders don’tals and care progressive about inter -thinkers that wouldn’t exist These Times investigative fellow Eli Day profiled candidates are young, more than usual are national issues, or that our movementsotherwise. are divided. Today Nor that’s is more important than ever, the efforts of activists to restore voting rights people of color and many are women. The it political suicide for candidates or electedas people officials increasingly to stake look for new ideas and new to the estimated 6.1 million Americans who stunning victory of democratic socialist out progressive anti-war, anti-militarismways positions—thoseto grapple with pressing problems that the are currently barred from voting due to a felo- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (above right) in the Democratic positions actually have broad support withindefenders both of our that move status- quo have failed to address ny convention. Two months later, Florida voters Acongressional primary in New York is perhaps the most ments and public opinion. It’s just that,for decades. too often, foreign approved an amendment to the state constitu- well-known, but she is far from alone. Rashida Tlaib (third policy feels remote from the urgency of domestic crises. SHAPING PROGRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICY: In Au- tion that would restore voting rights to 1.4 mil- To spark that conversation, here are+ several+ core princi- from right), a Palestinian-American woman in Detroit, gust, In These Times published “A Bold For- lion former felons. (11) just won the Democratic primary for the seat of legendary ples to help movement candidates stake out clear positions eign Policy Platform for the New Wave of Left REFORMING DEMOCRACY: Our April cover story, Rep. John Conyers. Tahirah Amatul-Wadud is running an on foreign policy and connect internationally focused is- ++ Lawmakers” by Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the “Breaking the Two-Party System” highlighted a insurgent campaign for Congress against a longstanding sues with locally grounded ones: Institute for Policy Studies. Bennis argued number of state-level experiments in electoral Democratic incumbent in western Massachusetts, keeping 1. A progressive foreign policy must rejectthat American progressives running for office on strong reform, in order to create a more inclusive, more her focus on Medicare for All and civil rights. Minnesota exceptionalism and U.S. military and economicdomestic platforms should include progres- representative and more responsive democracy. State Rep. Ilhan Omar, a former Somali refugee, is running domination. Instead, it must be groundedsive in foreign policy proposals just as strong. Featured ideas included proportional represen- for Keith Ellison’s former congressional seat as an “inter- global cooperation, human rights and respectShe outlined for in detail what that might look tation and multi-member districts, as well as an sectional feminist” and has won both the endorsement of international law. like across multiple fronts, from the Mid- in-depth looked at ranked choice voting, which the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the Democratic 2. Diplomacy must replace military actiondle in everyEast to Russia and beyond. She called for was implemented in a Congressional race for primary. And there are more. venue, with professional diplomats rathera progressive than the foreign policy that rejects U.S. the first time in Maine’s November election.( 12) Many of these candidates highlight their movement ex- White House’s political appointees in charge. perience in their campaigns. They are champions of immi- grant rights, healthcare, student debt organizing and the 3. There is no military solution to terrorism. The global fight for $15. Intersectionality has grown stronger, as the war on terror must be ended. MAKING AN IMPACT extremism of Trump’s right-wing racist assault kindles sig- 4. The war economy has distorted our society at home. nificant new links among the separate movements focused We must reverse our spending priorities.he mission of In These Times is to do closer, step by step, to the world we wall want to on racism, women’s rights, immigrant rights, climate, pov- 5. U.S. actions—military, economic and climate-more than inform—the goal of our journalism see. Over the past year, In These Times reporting erty, labor rights and other progressive issues. related—have been a driving force in displacingis effect people real-world changes that help move us has been a key part in numerous victories, there- But we mostly haven’t seen progressive and socialist T around the world. We have an enormous obligation candidates clearly link domestic issues with efforts to chal- to provide humanitarian support and refuge for those lenge war, militarism and the war economy. There are a who have been driven from their homes. few exceptions: Congressional candidate and Hawaii state Rep. Kaniela Ing spoke powerfully about U.S. colonialism The next two pages highlight specific progressive positions on - 7 -

PHOTOS VIA GETTY IMAGES in Hawaii, and Virginia state Rep. Lee J. Carter has spoken U.S. engagements around the world.

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by helping rein in systemic abuse on the part of cut off that money spigot, stating “we will no corporations, the Trump administration and the longer bank the private prison industry.”(14) Democratic Party: ++SHINING A LIGHT ON ONE OF AMERICA’S HIDDEN ++THWARTING TRUMP’S COAL BAILOUT: On Dec. WARS: Throughout 2018, InTheseTimes.com 6, 2017, InTheseTimes.com published leaked published more than a dozen original pieces photographs that showed Bob Murray, a coal on the U.S. involvement in Saudi Arabia’s dev- industry executive whose company stood to astating war on Yemen, including reporting by benefit greatly from a Department of Energy Yemeni journalists on the ground. This relent- (DOE) draft rule on grid reliability, privately less reporting helped bring attention to a pre- lobbying Energy Secretary Rick Perry for such viously overlooked war that has created the a rule. Within 24 hours of publication, the Fed- largest humanitarian crisis in the world. In No- eral Energy Regulatory Commission decid- vember, The New York Times Magazine featured ed to postpone its decision pending further the war in Yemen on its cover for the first time, review, and on January 8, 2018, the plan was as part of a dramatic shift in the media’s cov- voted down, 5-0. This was a huge victory for erage. In April of 2019, Congress invoked the clean energy, and for anyone who cares about War Powers Resolution for the first time in his- climate change. It was also a reminder of the tory to end U.S. support for the war. Trump ve- power and importance of investigative report- toed the bill, but the effort to end U.S. involve- ing. Both the New York Times and the Washing- ment has not let up. (15) ton Post cited In These Times’ work. (13) ++REFORMING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: In June ++TURNING UP THE HEAT ON ICE: Due to U.S. im- 2016, In These Times published a special inves- migration enforcement’s extensive use of out- tigation by Branko Marcetic into the secret his- sourcing, activists are increasingly targeting the tory of “superdelegates”—712 party officials corporations that make immigrant detention who had the power to do decide the party nom- possible. David Dayen’s October 2018 cover sto- ination for president, regardless of who voters ry looked “Below the Surface of ICE” to expose chose. Marcetic’s research revealed not just that the companies that are profiting from immigrant this system was deeply undemocratic, but that detention, naming more than two dozen pri- it was intentionally so, in order to prevent insur- vate companies that are complicit in the Trump gent candidates (like Bernie Sanders) from be- administration’s crackdown on immigrants. In coming the nominee. This investigation helped March of 2019, J.P. Morgan Chase, which has fuel criticism of the superdelegate system, and provided at least $254 million in debt financing in August 2018 the Democratic Party agreed to to two private prison giants mentioned in Day- dramatically reduce the power and influence of en’s investigation, CoreCivic and GEO Group, “superdelegates” in selecting the party’s presi- dential nominee in 2020 and beyond.

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➤➤Anonymous (1) ➤➤Maggie Garb ➤➤Betsy Krieger and ➤➤Bruce P. Merrill ➤➤Theresa Alt and ➤➤Christine George David Kandel ➤➤Susan Murray and Wayles Browne ➤➤Francis Hagan ➤➤Kenneth Landau Wade Chandler ➤➤Lucy and Peter ➤➤Lorraine Honig ➤➤Chris Lloyd ➤➤Marc Silberman Ascoli ➤➤Dorothy Mauser

ALLIES ( $1,000+)

➤➤Anonymous (5) ➤➤Kenneth Basom James Thindwa ➤➤Stuart Ambler ➤➤Kay Berkson and ➤➤Jennifer Boal and ➤➤Pat Aufderheide Sidney Hollander Roland Goff ➤➤Paula Baron ➤➤Martha Biondi and ➤➤M. Nieves Bolaños

- 13 - ALLIES ( $1,000+)

➤➤Elizabeth Brackett ➤➤Kevin George ➤➤Lisa Lee ➤➤Harriet and and Fred Olson ➤➤Martha Goldin ➤➤Karen Liebeman Alexander Pollatsek ➤➤Jan Breidenbach ➤➤Connie and and Bruce Nissen ➤➤Marjorie Pries and Dan Stormer Kenneth Graham ➤➤Jane Mansbridge ➤➤Barbara Ransby ➤➤Nicole Brodeur and ➤➤Jon Hagler and Sandy Jencks and Peter Sporn* Alex Payne ➤➤Marge Harrison ➤➤Frances and Peter ➤➤Judith Rhinestine ➤➤Kate ➤➤Lucy and Rich Marcuse and Michael Stein Bronfenbrenner Henighan ➤➤Amy Morton and ➤➤Frank Roosevelt ➤➤Carolyn Byerly ➤➤Elizabeth Rob Milburn ➤➤Margaret C. Rung ➤➤James Caya Higginbotham ➤➤Leslie Noblitt ➤➤Margie Siegel, in ➤➤Mardge Cohen and ➤➤Dwayne Huebner ➤➤Laura Orlando honor of Bill Siegel Gordon Schiff ➤➤Rebeca Itzkowich ➤➤Maria Pastoor and ➤➤Bette Sikes ➤➤Constance and John Ireland John Klein ➤➤Marta V. Smith Cooper and Marc ➤➤Brian Johnson ➤➤Steve Penningroth ➤➤Ellen Stone-Belic Bastuscheck ➤➤Marilyn Katz ➤➤Lois and Donald ➤➤Edwin Toolis ➤➤Kevin Creighan ➤➤Bengt Kjellén Pfost ➤➤Jon Tullis ➤➤Lawrence Finch ➤➤Roberta and Peter ➤➤Bernadine and ➤➤Alisse Waterston ➤➤Ann French Kovner Edward Pillar and Howard ➤➤Judith Gardiner Horowitz

FRIENDS ( $500+)

➤➤Anonymous (7) ➤➤Elspeth Bobbs ➤➤Amy Domini ➤➤Marie Gottschalk ➤➤Paul Baicich ➤➤Eileen Brenner ➤➤Pat and Richard ➤➤Dedrea and Paul ➤➤David Baker ➤➤Scott Brizard Doonan Gray ➤➤Stuart R. Bass ➤➤Stephen Bruce ➤➤Monique Morrissey ➤➤Jake Greene ➤➤Larry Bassett ➤➤Paul Bundy and Michael Duffy ➤➤Cliff Hall ➤➤Bob Bazzetta ➤➤Robert Burns ➤➤Jacquelyn Ellenz ➤➤Paul Hanson and Steven Snyder ➤➤Tamara and ➤➤William Nicholas ➤➤Don Henley Ted Becker Burt ➤➤Harvey Fernbach ➤➤Merlyn and Josiah ➤➤Edoardo Bellando ➤➤William Carey ➤➤Myron Filene Heyman ➤➤Ruth Benson ➤➤Fritzi Cohen ➤➤Marian and Eugene ➤➤Douglas R. Gabrych ➤➤Rodney Bleifuss ➤➤David Cooper Howland ➤➤Jay Goldberg ➤➤Patti Bleifuss ➤➤Neal Dahl ➤➤Jill Gordon ➤➤Susan Blumenthal ➤➤Dorothy Davis Smith

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➤➤Gloria Jarecki ➤➤Inga Lyngholm ➤➤Robert Nixon ➤➤Rachel Sherman ➤➤Patricia Jotkoff ➤➤Ann Markusen and ➤➤Mike Nusbaumer ➤➤Richard W. Smith ➤➤Herschel Kaminsky Rod Walli ➤➤Margaret Okuzumi ➤➤Jean C. Stanfield ➤➤Seena Kohl ➤➤Christopher R. and Bruce Hahne ➤➤Nancy and Bill ➤➤Susan Kornfield Martin ➤➤Elizabeth O’Nan Steward* ➤➤Robert Kraig ➤➤Michael McKeon ➤➤Mary Padgett ➤➤Susan Stone and ➤➤Nancy Kricorian ➤➤Dave Melchior ➤➤Diane Percival Eric Decker and James ➤➤Seamus Metress ➤➤Richard Peterson ➤➤Gordon Svoboda Schamus ➤➤Dan Miller ➤➤Frances Fox-Piven ➤➤Ronald Tower ➤➤Lorenzo and Robin ➤➤Steve Mooser ➤➤Frances Pohl ➤➤Judith Turner Kristov ➤➤George Ashley ➤➤Gordon Quinn ➤➤Charlie Varano ➤➤Lillian Laskin Moretz ➤➤Elspeth Revere and ➤➤Douglas Wagner ➤➤Dennis Lee ➤➤Chris Moser Bruce Calder ➤➤Barbara Walden ➤➤Bonita and Robert ➤➤Luann Mostello and ➤➤Don Rose ➤➤William Weaver Levin Art Milholland ➤➤Frank L. Schneider ➤➤Betty Weinstock ➤➤Peter Livingston ➤➤Lawrence Myers ➤➤David Schweickart ➤➤Susan Weltman ➤➤Robin Lloyd ➤➤Teri Nitta and Lewis ➤➤Brian Sherman ➤➤Jack Wuest Flock

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➤➤Apple Inc. ➤➤GE Foundation ➤➤Piece Pizza ➤➤Steppenwolf ➤➤Bella S. and ➤➤Google ➤➤Professionals Theatre Benjamin H. Garb ➤➤Helfrich Family Guild Ohio ➤➤The Brightwater Foundation, Inc. Fund Charitable ➤➤Public Welfare Fund ➤➤Cooper’s Hawk Trust Foundation, Inc ➤➤The Hummingbird ➤➤Crown Family ➤➤John D. & ➤➤Puffin Fund Foundation Catherine T. Foundation Ltd. ➤➤The Libra ➤➤Doing Good, LLC MacArthur ➤➤Raygun Foundation ➤➤Driehaus Foundation ➤➤Revolution Brewing ➤➤TransUnion Foundation ➤➤Leif Nissen ➤➤Rockefeller ➤➤Voya ➤➤Elias Foundation Foundation Foundation ➤➤Wiedmann-Elitzik ➤➤Foundation for ➤➤Park Foundation ➤➤Second City Charitable Fund Sustainability and ➤➤Peggy Meyerhoff ➤➤Solari Inc. Innovation Pearlstone Foundation

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