Inside ITT

Feature
Lines Drawn in the Sandinistas
Nicaragua’s democratic left chafes under President Ortega’s rule.
Freda Moon
Can the Unions Beat Dr. Evil and Corporate Shills In the Ad and Lobbying Wars?
Art Levine
Weekly Pulse: Are We There Yet?
Lindsay Beyerstein
Weekly Audit: Filling FDR’s shoes
Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger

Feature
Gaza in the Crosshairs
Israel cites all the wrong reasons for its invasion of Gaza.
Neve Gordon
Viewpoint
The Interactive Presidency
Joel Bleifuss
Dr. Evil is BAAAACK! UnionFacts.com’s new anti-union campaign repeats “Secret Ballot&#82
Art Levine
Comics
cutehate
Mikhaela B. Reid

Feature
Obama’s Burden
From Israel to Afghanistan, foreign policy challenges will test the new administration.
Robert Dreyfuss
Fair Pay: Decent Wages Must Be Part of Obama’s Jobs Package
Art Levine
H.R. 104 sent you a message on Facebook…
Mark Boyer
Comics
obamavict
Terry LaBan
Have Anti-Union Ads Flopped? New Poll Shows 78% Favor Employee Free Choice Act
Art Levine
Viewpoint
Cancer: Cause and Defects
Terry J. Allen

Culture
Jim Crow in the North
A new history examines the struggle to integrate above the Mason-Dixon Line.
Lewis M. Steel
What’s the 17th Amendment?
Jeremy Gantz
Weekly Pulse: America’s Next Top Doctor
Lindsay Beyerstein
Comics
resolutions
Mikhaela B. Reid
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.