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Feature
Fighting the Firings
After years of 'silent raids' and federal workplace audits, unions and community allies are going on the offensive.
David Bacon
Labor
America’s Rampant Inequality Impossible to Deny
Roger Bybee

Viewpoint
Wall Street Pulls Obama’s Strings
Leonard C. Goodman

Labor
Tunisian & Egyptian Women: After Revolutions, We’re Not Going Back to Second-Class Status
Carl Finamore

Feature
Save Our Schools
Student organizers with Save Our SUNY are fighting austerities—new and old—in New York state’s higher ed system.
James Cersonsky

Labor
Verizon Workers Suspend Strike and Resume Talks—But Strategy for Victory Unclear
Mike Elk
How U.S. Citizens Are Suing Donald Rumsfeld for Torture
David Szydloski

Labor
National Park and Forest Employees Fight Power with Passion
Kari Lydersen

Feature
Global Land Grab
Fear of unrest and hunger for profit are sparking massive acquisitions of farmland.
Terry J. Allen

Labor
President’s Bus Tour Suggests Broken Moral Compass
Roger Bybee

Labor
Fixing Schools: A Smart Plan for Jobs
Michelle Chen

Labor
Hershey Guest Worker Scandal Result of Lax Govt. Oversight: Immigration Expert
Mike Elk

Dispatch
Brazil’s Dam Shame
Construction of the giant Belo Monte dam is now underway in the Amazon. But the movement against it continues.
Gabriel Schwartzman
Viewpoint
The Vegetarian’s Dilemma
David Sirota
Labor
Cops and Firefighters: The Public Sector’s New Untouchable Upper Class?
Matthew Blake

Labor
A Man, A Plan, A Canal: What Panama’s Massive Expansion Project Means for Labor
Kari Lydersen
Video
Mike Elk on the Verizon Strike
Joe Macaré

Feature
What Wisconsin Means
On a 96-year-old labor journalist and burning down the forest.
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 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.