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''In These Times'' is an American politically progressive/democratic socialist monthly magazine of news and opinion published by the Institute for Public Affairs 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 environmental issues, feminism, grassroots democracy, minority communities, progressive ideals and the media. Weinstein was the publication's founding editor and publisher; its current editor and publisher is Joel Bleifuss. , it had a circulation of over 18,000. As a nonprofit organization, the magazine is financed through subscriptions and donations. ==History== 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''. "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.〔''Chicago Sun Times''. November 15, 1976.〕 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 contributorsfrom anarchists, to union members, to centrists. During the 1980s, the publication won notoriety for its investigative reporting of the Iran–Contra affair. It has since broken stories on the deliberate destruction of Iraqi water treatment plants by US forces during the first Gulf War (1990-1991), global warming, and on the emergence of mad cow disease. During the 1980s, and up to 1992, it was a biweekly newspaper and a democratic-socialist competitor to the ''National Guardian'', which was a biweekly newspaper that was closer to Marxism–Leninism.〔The Guardian of New York, NY, not the Manchester Guardian. Peter Miller, "Carl Davidson: (From SDS and The Guardian, to cyRev and CyberRadicalism for the 21st Century" )〕 Senior editor Silja J.A. Talvi won two National Council on Crime and Delinquency PASS Awards (2005, 2006) for her reporting on the impact of three strikes sentencing on African-American men, and on the trend toward privatization of the prison system. The magazine was awarded the ''Utne Readers Independent Press Award for Best Political Coverage in 2006.〔("Political Coverage: In These Times: 2006 UIPA Winners" ). ''Utne Reader''. January / February 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「In These Times」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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