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Joel Bleifuss
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In an Afghan Hole? Dig Deeper
Gen. Stanley McChrystal's trash talking and his subsequent sacking by President Barack Obama is a sign: America's foreign MORE
Views · July 12, 2010
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ITT Community Business
During the three days after the May 2010 issue of In These Times went to press, I signed more MORE
Views · May 6, 2010
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Obama’s ‘Ben Tre Logic
Has nothing changed since we were preparing to invade Iraq eight years ago? Yes, we have a new MORE
Views · December 15, 2009
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Block ’Em, Sock ’Em
Across the country progressive groups are mobilizing to support legislative initiatives, but to what effect? On the climate MORE
Views · July 9, 2009
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Buy Back Our Government
Porn rentals, duck islands and moat-cleaning are among the frivolities British members of Parliament have charged to their MORE
Views · June 11, 2009
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A Specter is Haunting Dems
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) had every reason to free himself from the wing nuts that bind the rusty MORE
Views · May 12, 2009
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Bailout Bandits
In these days of "bank stablization plans" (bailouts for fat cats) and "overseas contingency operations" (wars), Americans who MORE
Views · April 16, 2009
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Building Utopia
A new documentary profiles the rise and fall of a Depression-era utopian experiment in the Bronx. MORE
Culture · April 13, 2009
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To Boycott Israel…or Not?
Naomi Klein and Rabbi Arthur Waskow debate whether divestment will bring peace to the Middle East. MORE
Features · March 30, 2009
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The Audacity of Reform
For some pundits, President Barack Obama's spectacular fundraising success during the 2008 general election has removed campaign finance reform MORE
Views · March 4, 2009
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The Interactive Presidency
President-elect Barack Obama owns the names, e-mail addresses and gigabytes of other data on 13 million Americans who signed MORE
Views · January 13, 2009
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We Have Much to Celebrate
Next year, President Barack Obama and the solidly Democratic Congress can pass legislation that provides universal healthcare, establishes MORE
Views · November 20, 2008
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Demons Out!
The neocons who sold Americans the Iraq War are working hand in hand with the Christian Right to MORE
Views · October 14, 2008
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United We Fail
This election year, the bandwagon to fix the healthcare system barrels along. On board is a motley crew MORE
Views · September 16, 2008
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Letter from Joel Bleifuss: Drop charges against Amy Goodman and two producers of “Democracy No
September 2, 2008 Dear friends, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! was arrested yesterday, along with two of the show’s producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. The producers were arrested for simply doing their... MORE
The ITT List · September 2, 2008
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Keep the Heat on Obama
In 1992, when Bill Clinton won the Democratic nomination, Washington progressives -- the leaders of unions, think tanks and MORE
Views · August 19, 2008
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EPA on Trial
For more than six years, Hugh Kaufman has been battling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), his employer for 37 MORE
Act Locally · July 14, 2008
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Bush’s Selective Mourning
The Fourth of July is the time for patriotic hoohah by national poobahs. So, Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush MORE
Views · July 3, 2008
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Piling it High
The sewage sludge industry meets the light of day MORE
Features · May 21, 2008
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Political Vice Squad
In October 2001, when Congress passed the Patriot Act -- and again when it reauthorized it in 2006 -- the MORE
Views · April 22, 2008
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Red-Boating Obama
Sen. Barack Obama is many things to the right-wing noise machine: a crypto-Muslim, a drug-addled hoodlum, a snob MORE
Views · March 11, 2008
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Political Climate Change
Paul Krugman, president of the Hillary Clinton fan club, writes in his New York Times column that if MORE
Views · February 19, 2008
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Pollsters and Puppets
For Sen. Hillary Clinton, Iowa and New Hampshire are chapters of a story that began at 10 G Street MORE
Views · January 15, 2008
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The New Children’s Crusade
Vets like Vincent J. Emanuele and other Iraq Veterans Against the War inherit the reins from the Vietnam era peacenicks before them MORE
Features · July 13, 2007
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Thicker Than Oil
Iraq Veterans Against the War take the baton from their Vietnam-era counterparts MORE
Views · June 12, 2007
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The Fraudulence of Voter Fraud
The Bush administration purged U.S. attorneys for failing to prosecute crimes that didn't occur MORE
Features · April 18, 2007
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Thank You Mr. Vonnegut
With the April 11 death of Senior Editor Kurt Vonnegut, In These Times lost a dear friend. And the MORE
Views · April 13, 2007
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Global Warming: Dim Bulbs, Bright Lights
People who want to save the Earth from the ravages of global warming face a perennial problem: How MORE
Features · April 13, 2007
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A Politically Correct Lexicon
Your 'how-to' guide to avoid offending anyone MORE
Features · February 21, 2007
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Thirty More Years
Back in 1976, when James Weinstein decided to move to Chicago to start In These Times, his inspiration was MORE
Views · February 6, 2007
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Outlawing Legal Bribery
According to a national exit poll, 42 percent of voters in November's election said that corruption was the most MORE
Views · January 4, 2007
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Voting Problems? In Florida? No Way!
Following the 2000 election a popular bumper sticker in Florida read, "If you think we can't vote, wait 'til MORE
Views · December 19, 2006
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The E. coli Free Market
The E. Coli outbreak is caused by the deregualtion and mass production of food by corporate agriculture's economies of scale. MORE
Views · November 23, 2006
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The Importance of Not Getting Over It
A new Book Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? suggests that doctored memory cards on electronic voting machines stole the election. MORE
Views · October 3, 2006
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If the Paint Sticks, Sling It
MoveOn uses new "Caught red-handed" ad campaign to highlight Republican congressional candidates who put special interests before the public good. MORE
Views · July 25, 2006
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DeLay May Be Gone, But His Legacy Isnt
Every so often a documentary film comes along that makes you think, "If only more people could see MORE
Views · June 27, 2006
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Was the Presidential Election Stolen?
On June 2, Rolling Stone published a lengthy article by Robert J. Kennedy, Jr., "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" That MORE
Features · June 19, 2006
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Information Highway Robbers
What makes the Internet revolutionary is that it is democratic, open to anyone with a computer and an MORE
Views · May 18, 2006
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What Ails Us?
Americans are experiencing an epidemic of outrage fatigue
MOREViews · May 2, 2006
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Strangers to the Truth
Coming soon to a media market near you: The GOP (Grand Old Prevaricators), who brought you the Swift MORE
Views · March 24, 2006
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The Crescent Menace
Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, having already passed himself off as an expert on women's reproductive health, is MORE
Views · March 7, 2006
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FBI, DoD, NSA: All Spying on You
Quietly, the war on terror, in which everything is permitted, has laid the ground work for the Bush MORE
Views · January 28, 2006
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Ghosts in the Voting Machines
Concerned about reports of election fraud and vote suppression in the 2004 election, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking MORE
Views · December 29, 2005
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Tale of Two Wars
The White House has hit on an ingenious way to win the war in Iraq. It is all MORE
Views · December 18, 2005
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Their Patents or Your Life
Have you heard about that bird flu? The threatened pandemic, should it occur, will kill in a worst-case MORE
Views · December 3, 2005
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Lies Judith Miller Told Us
In the last few months all manner of gas has been expended on the Valerie Plame case. Did MORE
Views · October 21, 2005
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Kurt Vonnegut’s In These Times Opus
On November 11, In These Times Senior Editor Kurt Vonnegut will turn 83. Here at the magazine we raise our MORE
Features · October 9, 2005
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Disasters: Natural and Social
Eric Klinenberg discusses the militarization of social services and what will be missing from any national conversations about poverty MORE
Features · September 26, 2005
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The New New Orleans
One storm has passed, but another looms. New Orleans stands on the frontlines of what is shaping up MORE
Views · September 26, 2005
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End it Already
Here is the question to the parents of American service men and women that the Bush administration never MORE
Views · August 21, 2005
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