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Labor
Corporations, Federal ‘Reform’ Keep Shifting Healthcare Costs to Workers
Roger Bybee
A Common Conservative Tactic: Policing the Boundaries of Acceptable Art
Joe Macaré
Viewpoint
Bin Laden Mission Evokes More Questions Than Answers
David Sirota

Dispatch
Mr. Ryan’s Neighborhood
The House budget chairman’s plan takes from the poor and gives to the rich.
Roger Bybee

Labor
Congressman: Another Mine Disaster Needed to Pass Safety Legislation
Mike Elk
Labor
‘Locked Out’ Savors Story of Rio Tinto Miners’ Hard-Fought Victory
Rose Arrieta
Video
Mike Elk on Boeing, GOP Attack on NLRB
Joe Macaré

Feature
For-Profit Colleges’ Debt Disorder
As the industry whitewashes its image and fights new regulations, a leading company offloads its own sour student loans.
Pat Garofalo

Labor
Domestic Workers Form Historic Partnership With AFL-CIO
Kari Lydersen
Viewpoint
The Bully’s Pulpit
Susan J. Douglas
Video
Sirota: We Must Not Celebrate Violence
Jeremy Gantz
Labor
New York City Teachers Union Protests Education Cutbacks, Joins May 12 ‘Mobilization’
Akito Yoshikane
Sluts Like Me
Lindsay Beyerstein

Labor
Look Past Public Workers—the Root of Labor’s Crisis Lies in Private Sector
Joe Burns
Video
Live: Minnesota Senate Debates Anti-Gay Amendment
Joe Macaré

Labor
On the Border, Obama Pivots on Immigration, Wavers on Real Change
Michelle Chen

Culture
Interns of the World, Unite!
We have nothing to lose but our résumés.
Ross Perlin

Labor
Obama Has Power to Stop Unionbusting With a Stroke of His Pen
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.