Tim Wheeler

Tim Wheeler has written over 10,000 news reports, exposés, op-eds, and commentaries in his half-century as a journalist for the Worker, Daily World, and People’s World. Tim also served as editor of the People’s Weekly World newspaper. His book News for the 99% is a selection of his writings over the last 50 years representing a history of the nation and the world from a working-class point of view. After residing in Baltimore for many years, Tim now lives in Sequim, Wash.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler

News

Donation match: Will you meet my challenge for People’s World?
February 19, 2021 By Tim Wheeler
Retired People's World editor in chief Tim Wheeler issues a challenge: He'll match every contribution that comes in right away, up to $1,000.
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News

Famed Black journalist Joe Walker’s fateful meeting with Malcolm X
February 18, 2021 By Tim Wheeler
Joe Walker was already a widely admired African-American journalist when he got a surprising invitation to become the editor of Muhammad Speaks, the Nation of Islam’s newspaper.
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Politics

QAnon Mayor terminates popular Sequim, Washington state City Manager
February 3, 2021 By Tim Wheeler
Despite overwhelming support for Sequim City Manager, Charlie Bush, the town’s Mayor, William Armacost, a QAnon cultist, forged ahead last week to fire Bush.
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Opinion

Labor creates all value, including vaccine value
December 23, 2020 By Tim Wheeler
We don't know, and maybe never will, how much "surplus value" Big Pharma will squeeze from the workers fighting against COVID-19.
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U.S.

Karl Yoneda and Elaine Black—star-crossed lovers in a class war
November 19, 2020 By Tim Wheeler
"I will never forget the shock on the faces of our mostly African-American neighbors who live with racism every day to hear Karl and Elaine tell the story of their incarceration, the vicious racism they endured."
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Opinion

Victory, yes, but keep on marching
November 6, 2020 By Tim Wheeler
Even with a Biden victory, we’ve got to keep marching. Democracy and the country are still in grave peril.
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Politics

Rural America fights gun violence and Trump-backing thugs
September 8, 2020 By Tim Wheeler
Rural communities like Sequim, Washington, contrary to stereotypes put forward by the right wing, are involved in the fight for progressive solutions to the nation’s problems.
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Labor

Democratic convention: $4 trillion infrastructure bank would create 25 million jobs
August 21, 2020 By Tim Wheeler
A National Infrastructure Bank would rebuild the nation’s rusting bridges, roads, and power grid and create 25 million union jobs desperately needed as the nation sinks into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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