Joel Bleifuss - In These Times

Joel Bleifuss, a former director of the Peace Studies Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is the editor & publisher of In These Times, where he has worked since October 1986.

Bleifuss has worked at In These Times for 34 years, including as managing editor and senior editor. He tackles the state of national and international events with a blend of critical insight and humor, and over the years has developed a niche for investigative reporting. His reporting on environmental health issues, national security scandals and the Iran Contra affair has landed in newspapers and magazines around the country, including the New York Times, the Utne Reader, the Capital Eye and many others. He is the co-author of the book “Was The 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?,” with Steven F. Freeman. Before joining In These Times, Bleifuss was director of the Peace Studies Program for the University of Missouri, a features writer for the Fulton Sun in Fulton, Missouri, and a freelance journalist in Spain. Bleifuss currently serves on the advisory board of The Public Square, a program of the Illinois Humanities Council.

Political Vice Squad

Red-Boating Obama

Political Climate Change

Pollsters and Puppets

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

Thicker Than Oil

Iraq Veterans Against the War take the baton from their Vietnam-era counterparts

The Fraudulence of Voter Fraud

The Bush administration purged U.S. attorneys for failing to prosecute crimes that didn't occur

Thank You Mr. Vonnegut

Global Warming: Dim Bulbs, Bright Lights

A Politically Correct Lexicon

Your 'how-to' guide to avoid offending anyone

Thirty More Years

Outlawing Legal Bribery

Voting Problems? In Florida? No Way!

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.

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.

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.

DeLay May Be Gone, But His Legacy Isnt

Was the Presidential Election Stolen?

Information Highway Robbers

Strangers to the Truth

The Crescent Menace

FBI, DoD, NSA: All Spying on You

Ghosts in the Voting Machines

Tale of Two Wars

Their Patents or Your Life

Lies Judith Miller Told Us

Kurt Vonnegut’s In These Times Opus

Disasters: Natural and Social

Eric Klinenberg discusses the militarization of social services and what will be missing from any national conversations about poverty

The New New Orleans

What Jimmy Taught Us

Embedded with Tim Robbins

Sanders Steps Up

The representative for the rest of us sets his sights on the Senate

Christian Restorationists

Time for a Purge?

Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

The Choice is Yours

Duck and Cover-up

Silence of the Dems

The July Surprises

Beating a Dead Horse

Framing Michael Moore

Reagans Legacy of Lies

Listen to the Canary

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