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Feature
The Absolute Buoyancy: Why Corbyn and Labour Are Up and the Conservatives Are Down
The message from recent party conferences was clear: Labour is ascendant, while UK voters are tiring of Theresa May and the Tories.
Richard Seymour

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Rahm Emanuel Wants $95 Million for a New Police Facility. Chicago Activists Have Other Ideas.
Organizers with the #NoCopAcademy campaign are taking to the phones, streets and trains to get out their message that Chicago communities need more resources, not more cops.
Charles Preston

Feature
How the “Fake News” Scare Is Marginalizing the Left
Unaccountable tech companies are defining the parameters of acceptable discourse.
Julianne Tveten

Dispatch
Hurricane Relief, in the Spirit of Ella Baker
These volunteers are rebuilding northeast Houston, with a dose of transformative justice.
Eesha Pandit

Feature
Elon Musk Is Not the Hero Puerto Rico Needs
The island needs a revamped electric grid and fast, but privatization is not the answer.
Kate Aronoff

Feature
How Private Equity Killed Toys “R” Us
Private equity firms bled the company dry to turn a profit, and now mass layoffs are imminent.
Mark Dunbar

Feature
To End Mass Incarceration, We Must Rethink How We Respond to Violence
Using restorative justice techniques as an alternative to prison has a surprising group of supporters: victims of violence
Sophie Bandarkar

Culture
Yanis Varoufakis: Confessions of a Troika Dropout
Greece’s former finance minister and “inconsistent Marxist” discusses his new tell-all from his time in Europe’s halls of austerity.
Sarah Leonard

Rural America
Is the Biotech Industry Transforming a Natural Pesticide into a Super Toxin?
Jonathan R. Latham
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.
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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.