The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature
Who’s Really To Blame for Detroit’s Financial Problems?
Three painfully simple questions for Gov. Rick Snyder and officials.
David Sirota

Labor
Uncle Sam’s Hiring Practices
Bruce Vail

Labor
Teachers Seek to ‘Reclaim’ Education
Michelle Chen

Feature
David Horowitz: ‘Conservatives Are So F**king Well-Mannered’
America’s preeminent leftist-turned-neoconservative talks politics with In These Times.
Cole Stangler

Comics
Daily Caller Goes Full Sexist
Matt Bors

Labor
Are Young Workers the Future of Labor?
James Cersonsky

Labor
Sex Workers in France Resist Attacks on Their Liberty
Michelle Chen

Feature
The Pledge of Corporate Allegiance?
Leaks reveal that corporate front group ALEC may ask for loyalty oaths from legislators.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Comics
Religious Liberty
Matt Bors

Labor
Supreme Court Dismisses Mulhall v. Unite Here, Giving Labor a Lucky Escape
Moshe Z. Marvit

Labor
On National Day of Action to Reclaim Public Education, Some Chicago Politicians Get Lumps of Coal
Matthew Blake

In Chicago, the War Is Far From Over, Says Documentary
Analeah Rosen

Labor
Volkswagen Tied to Another Anti-Union Group
Mike Elk

Comics
Mandela Terrorist
Eric Garcia

Feature
Homeland, Season 3, Episode 11: Where’s Fara?
At the expense of more interesting (and diverse) characters, Homeland gives us another hour of Brody.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor
Will Power: 16-Day Strike Helps Public Workers Win Wage Increase
Matthew Blake

Dispatch
Can Socialists Win Elections in the U.S.?
Kshama Sawant of Seattle showed socialist victories are possible. Will they spread?
Bhaskar Sunkara and Micah Uetricht
What Do TV and Movies Get Right and Wrong About Prisons?
Matt Stroud
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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