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Can Co-ops Save Unions?
Labor-cooperative partnerships may herald a new strategy for labor--if they can get off the ground.
Rebecca Burns

Chicago 11th-Graders Walk Out in Defiance of State-Mandated Test
Amien Essif

Labor
Chicago’s Fast Food Workers: “We Can’t Survive on $8.25”
David Moberg

Labor
Overworking Women: How Long Hours Lead to Gender-Segregated Jobs
Sarah Jaffe

Labor
In Zero Sum Game, Rick Perry Courts Illinois Businesses
Matthew Blake

Labor
All Work, No Pay
Joseph Sorrentino

Viewpoint
The Digital Education Divide
Massive Open Online Courses threaten to aggravate the problems they were designed to solve.
Susan J. Douglas

Labor
How Soon Will West, Texas Be Forgotten?
Mike Elk

The Yoko Ono Effect on Fracking
Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNet

Labor
Local Unions Notch A Victory At Baltimore’s New Casino
Bruce Vail
12 Arrested in ‘Die-In’ for Guantanamo Prisoners
Jack Bedrosian

Feature
All Ye Progressives, Take Heart
The Grand Old Party will eventually be the Dead Old Party: the inexorable logic of numbers.
Marilyn Katz

Labor
Fruits and Vegetables, But No Health Guarantees
Yana Kunichoff, The Chicago Reporter

Feature
Can Manufacturing Be Reborn in the U.S.A.?
Maybe, but don't look to 'reshoring.'
David Moberg

Labor
Bangladeshi Activists Bring Fight to Wal-Mart’s Doorstep
Michelle Chen

Labor
‘Fashion Police’ Accused of Wage Theft
Sarah Jaffe

Feature
In Syria, Unlearned Lessons from Libya
Why does the U.S. believe that only violent overthrow will work?
Stephen R. Weissman

Feature
The New ‘New’ Journalism
What is a blogoporterator? Find out now!
Kenneth Rapoza
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 UnionWU, 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.