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Labor
Labor News Round-Up: Wal-Mart PR Firm Has Fake Reporter Spy on Workers, and More
Mike Elk
Labor
Senate Democrats Block Funding for Guest Worker Protection Rule
Mike Elk
Obama Announces Halt to Deportations of Undocumented Youth
Joseph Misulonas

Labor
Judge Blocks American Airlines Union Election
Mike Elk

Labor
Workplace Toxics Reveal the Beauty Industry’s Ugly Side
Michelle Chen

Labor
New Booze Brawl in Pennsylvania Puts 5,000 Public-Sector Workers At Risk
Bruce Vail
Labor
Why The Economy Has Only Recovered for the One Percent
Roger Bybee

Feature
West Bank Diaries
In May, the author spent ten days traveling around Israel, Palestine and Jordan with the liberal pro-Israel advocacy organization J Street. What follows are excerpts from the journal she kept during her trip.
Marilyn Katz

Dancing to a Different Drum
Bhaskar Sunkara
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.