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Working In These Times

"Working In These Times" is dedicated to providing independent and incisive coverage of the labor movement and the struggles of workers to obtain safe, healthy and just workplaces.

• 17 May 13

• Senate Standoff Threatens Labor Board Shutdown

  WASHINGTON, D.C.–A partisan political standoff in the U.S. Senate threatens to close down the National Labor Relations… MORE »

  BY Bruce Vail

• 16 May 13

• Labor Department Hits the Road To Push Minimum Wage Hike

  BALTIMORE—With one minimum wage hike proposal after another languishing in Congress, some advocates may have given… MORE »

  BY Bruce Vail

• 15 May 13

• A More Democratic Foxconn? No One Told the Workers

  With a workforce of more than one million, the electronics giant Foxconn has enough workers in its Chinese factories to… MORE »

  BY Michelle Chen

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Duly Noted

At Duly Noted, Lindsay Beyerstein dives into the news of the day while analyzing politics, media and culture. But it's not all commentary—she'll also rake some muck.

• 16 May 13

• Boobs React to Angelina Jolie’s Preventive Mastectomy

  Natural News is a moral and intellectual cesspool, but founder Mike Adams may have hit a new low with his vitriolic attack… MORE »

• 30 Apr 13

• Cupcake Feminism

  Food writer Michael Pollan is an evangelist for home cooking as path to healthy eating and food justice. In some of his bestselling… MORE »

• 27 Apr 13

• No, Matt Yglesias, Bangladeshi Workers Didn’t Choose To Be Crushed To Death

  Over 300 Bangladeshis were crushed to death in the ruins of their high-rise factory and Slate’s Matt Yglesias is annoyed.… MORE »

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Uprising

The latest on social movements in the United States and around the globe, edited by In These Times Associate Editor Rebecca Burns.

• 17 May 13

• Farmer Plants First Industrial Hemp Crop in 50 Years

  Reprinted with permission from Grist. What do you do when the federal government won’t let you plant a sustainable,… MORE »

• 17 May 13

• Party-Crashing for the Climate; Indignados Turn Two; Bus Ads Promote Equal Rights for Palestinians

  Party-Crashing for the Climate: On Monday, over 500 protesters gathered outside of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York,… MORE »

• 15 May 13

• Eight Hours Inside Occupied Cooper Union

  Reprinted from Waging Nonviolence. Since last Wednesday, students at Cooper Union, a private free university in New York… MORE »

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The ITT List

And then there was blogging: The ITT List offers all the news that isn't fit to print, from In These Times magazine's staff, writers and friends.

• 16 May 13

• Alt Press Pick of the Week: Calling Out Sexism on the Left

  Rape allegations. Sexual harassment. Patriarchal abuse of power. No, this time the accusations are not against Catholic clergy… MORE »

  BY Alternative Press Center

• 10 May 13

• The Elizabeth Colbert-Busch Guide to Running in Another Party’s Safe District

  It’s no secret that congressional elections have a bit of a competitiveness problem. Most congressional districts invariably… MORE »

  BY Devin McCarthy

• 08 May 13

• Alt Press Pick of the Week: Stop-and-Frisk Is a Tactic to Control Minorities, Admit Police

  Over at Counterpunch, Ari Paul has sobering details from the trial over the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk… MORE »

  BY Alternative Press Center

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