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Labor
What’s Next for Michigan Unions?
Bruce Vail

Labor
Illinois Coal Bankruptcy: Good News for Environment, Bad News for Workers
Kari Lydersen

Culture
Twilight of the Twi-Hards
The triumph of Team Katniss.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature
Solidarity After Sandy
Occupy steps up where traditional disaster relief fails.
Eric Murphy

Feature
Football Coaches vs. the Common Good
Why doesn't the GOP gripe about our taxes going to multi-million-dollar coaches' salaries?
David Sirota

Karen Lewis Keeps the Haters at Bay
Sarah Cobarrubias

Standing Up for Chicago’s Public School Students
Ian Lopez

Labor
A Grief-Stricken Randi Weingarten Engages Hesitant Unions on Gun Control in Wake of Sandy Hook
Mike Elk

Feature
The Koch Brothers’ Gun-Control Disinformation
What Switzerland and Israel actually teach us.
Thom Hartmann, AlterNet
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.