Elizabeth Sanders is a professor of government at Cornell University and the author of Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (University of Chicago Press, 1999). Seth Bensel owns a small business in Ithaca, N.Y., and is a lifelong environmentalist.

Culture
In the Dark About Light
Our streetlight problem.
Elizabeth Sanders and Seth Bensel
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers Union, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.