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Labor
Union Leader Forbids Beer in Battle with Scab Company
Mike Elk

Labor
Study Demolishes the Myth That U.S. Workers Lack Skills
Roger Bybee

Frat Brothers Raise $15,000 for Transgender Pledge’s Surgery
Laura Gottesdiener, AlterNet
Maryland Court Reverses $1B Verdict Against Exxon
Ian Becker

Comics
Yahoo And Working From Home
Jeff Danziger

Dispatch
Ugandans Sue U.S. Evangelical for Hate Speech
How the persecuted Ugandan LGBT community turned the tables.
Camille Beredjick

Feature
After The Feminine Mystique
There's more to feminism than what Friedan wrote 50 years ago.
Sheila Bapat
Black Chicago Cops Protest City’s Racially Offensive Brochure
Jack Bedrosian

Feature
7 Ways Sequestration Will Sock the Middle Class
Once again, the GOP strips funds from the neediest to pad their own wallets.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Comics
UK Credit Downgrade
Jeff Danziger

Feature
As Obama Tours Israel, It’s Time for Action, Not Talk
During President Barack Obama's visit in Israel, he must focus on ending the occupation.
Marilyn Katz

Labor
Red, White and Blue-Washing: GE Backs Off Boast of 13,000 New Jobs
Mike Elk

Viewpoint
No Sanctuary in the Ivory Tower
Why didn't MIT defend Aaron Swartz?
Chris Lehmann

Viewpoint
A Just War in Timbuktu?
How the Salafist uprising in Mali threw our Enlightenment ideals into confusion.
Joel Bleifuss

Labor
Boeing Supply-Chain Workers Vote to Strike
Amien Essif

Labor
New Aid for Hostess Workers As Bakeries Auction Approaches
Bruce Vail

Labor
Locked Out of Jobs, Formerly Incarcerated Struggle to Reintegrate
Michelle Chen

Labor
CA Country Club Workers Win Contract; Gov’t Safety Delay Killed 6; Did SCOTUS Prompt Union-Busting?
Mike Elk
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.