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How Now Mad Cow?
Joel Bleifuss

Feature
Magnet Consolidation Threatens Both U.S. Jobs and Security
David Moberg
As good as a bag of Funions
A.L. Loy
Culture
What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
Slavoj Žižek
Viewpoint
Racist Slurs Taint U.S. Sports
Salim Muwakkil

Feature
Healthcare Workers Win Raises
Christopher Hayes
Viewpoint
When Mainstream Media Tells Labor Stories
Organized labor isn’t organized crime, but how would we know?
Jeff Epton

Culture
Lula Rising
Kevin Y. Kim

Feature
Bridging the Labor-Environment Gap
Adam Werbach
Nursery Rhyme Gone Awry
Jessica Clark
Viewpoint
Union Makes Us Strong
Joel Bleifuss

Feature
Laboring for Justice in 2004
Dorian T. Warren

Dispatch
Ethiopian Genocide
Military massacres Anuak
Doug McGill

Culture
Two Tales of One Monster
Todd Lillethun

Feature
Organize, Strategize, Revitalize
Unions debate best way to revive labor’s fortunes
David Moberg

Feature
Organizing: The Future of the American Labor Movement
Gerald McEntee

Feature
Change Labor, Change America
Andrew L. Stern
Dispatch
Braun Drops Out, Endorses Dean
Cynthia Moothart
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.
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