The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature
In Defense of Peeta Mellark
Teen girls have unruly, selfish desires, and that's OK.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature
Eating Like There’s No Tomorrow
Meat consumption not only affects our environment, but also our access to antibiotics.
David Sirota

Feature
A Death Knell for the McJob?
Strikes in 100 cities signal a sea change in attitudes about low-wage work.
David Moberg

Labor
How Big Banks Shortchange Their Workers
Sarah Jaffe

Feature
Don’t Feel Guilty About Chinese Worker Abuse
Get mad instead.
Kevin Slaten

Viewpoint
The Hypocritical Oath: Make a Healthy Profit
Practitioners of both traditional and alternative medicine rake in cash from the credulous.
Terry J. Allen

Labor
Unions Furious with Illinois Democrats Over Pension Cuts
David Moberg

Labor
Spy vs. Spy at Walmart
Barbara Garson

Feature
The ‘Axis of Evil’ Returns
The hypocritical U.S. policy towards Iran.
Noam Chomsky

Feature
How the FBI Conspired to Destroy the Black Panther Party
The assassination of BPP leader Fred Hampton in 1969 was just the beginning.
G. Flint Taylor

Feature
An Outsider on the Inside
Though battling terminal illness, Tim Carpenter is still busy moving Congress left.
Cole Stangler

Case of ‘Forced C-section’ May Not Be What It Seems
Lindsay Beyerstein

Labor
Wait for Medical Relief Drags on for Last of Ground Zero Victims
Michelle Chen

Comics
A year to remember?
Matt Bors
Groups offer a solution for the high cost of private prison phone calls
Matt Stroud

Labor
How Chicago Whole Foods Workers Won Back Thanksgiving
Amien Essif

Wikileaks Docs Expose Famed Serbian Activist’s Ties to ‘Shadow CIA’
Carl Gibson and Steve Horn

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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 10: Hook, Line and Sinker
We fell for the previews' implication that this episode would be Brody's last. No such luck.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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