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Labor
Six Flags Great America Not So Great for Foreign Work-Visa Students
Rebekah Frumkin and Enrica Nicoli-Aldini

InvestigationGoodman Institute
At Angola Prison, Getting Sick Can Be a Death Sentence
A 6-month investigation into the largest maximum-security state prison in the country.
Katie Rose Quandt and James Ridgeway

Culture
The Android Manifesto: Finding Marx in Westworld
The HBO drama is a surprisingly astute tale of alienated labor and false consciousness.
Eileen Jones

Labor
With Too Few Workplace Inspectors, OSHA Targets Worst of the Worst
Paul Feldman and Stuart Silverstein

Feature
Rogue One May Be the Most Leftist Star Wars Film Yet
In the age of Trump, we need all the rogues we can get.
Kate Aronoff

Feature
The GOP Made Kansas a Test Case for Faith-Based Economics. The Results Aren’t Pretty.
Many of the same policies that blew a hole in the state budget are headed to the White House.
Theo Anderson

Culture
Dissident-Poet on the Lam: A New Film Captures Pablo Neruda’s Year as a Fugitive
Pablo Larrain's Neruda follows the love-poet-cum-Communist-dissident in a cat-and-mouse chase with the Chilean government.
Michael Atkinson

Labor
“Si se Pudo!”: Hotel Workers Win Union in Santa Monica, California
Samantha Winslow

Feature
Did Trump Retaliate Against Twitter Because It Refused to Help Him Build a Muslim Registry?
The official explanation for why CEO Jack Dorsey didn’t get an invite to Trump’s tech meeting leaves a lot to the imagination.
Kate Aronoff
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.