In These Times
Magazine cover, December 2016.
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| Editor | Joel Bleifuss |
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| Categories | Progressive news and opinion |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 43,000 (as of 2016[update]) |
| Publisher | Joel Bleifuss |
| Founder | James Weinstein |
| Year founded | 1976 |
| First issue | November 1976 |
| Company | Institute for Public Affairs |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Chicago, Illinois |
| Language | English |
| Website | inthesetimes |
| ISSN | 0160-5992 |
| OCLC number | 60620754 |
In These Times is an American politically progressive/democratic socialist monthly magazine of news and opinion published in Chicago, Illinois.
It was established as a broadsheet-format fortnightly newspaper in 1976 by James Weinstein, a lifelong socialist, with the aid of intellectuals including Julian Bond, Noam Chomsky and Herbert Marcuse.
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 the media.
Weinstein was the publication's founding editor and publisher; its current editor and publisher is Joel Bleifuss.
As of 2016[update], it had a circulation of over 43,000. As a nonprofit organization, the magazine is financed through subscriptions and donations.
In 1976, Weinstein, an historian and former editor of Studies on the Left, launched the politically progressive journal In These Times. He sought to model the newsweekly on the early-20th-century socialist paper the Appeal to Reason. For some time, its tagline was 'The Socialist Newsweekly'. "We intend to speak to corporate capitalism as the great issue of our time, and to socialism as the popular movement that will meet it" he told the Chicago Sun Times on the eve of the first issue's release. While Weinstein himself was involved with both the New American Movement and the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, he wanted the journal to be independent of any one political party or faction. Thus, over the years it has published a wide variety of contributors – from anarchists, to union members, to centrists.
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