The Wisconsin Idea

Rural America
Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science but Genetic Engineers Often Are
Elizabeth Henderson

Labor
Union Members Don’t Oppose Environmental Protections. They’re Actually More Likely To Support Them.
Jeremy Brecher and Todd Vachon

Labor
The Verizon Strike Is a Reminder That Improving Workers’ Lives Will Always Require Workplace Action
Elizabeth Mahony

Feature
The Rising American Student Movement Is Part of a Battle for the Soul of Higher Education
Keep an eye on college campuses. The battles fought there are going to matter for the wider world tomorrow.
Aviva Chomsky

Labor
Progressive Nonprofits That Oppose the New Overtime Rules for Low-Income Workers Are Hypocrites
Ethan Miller

Feature
Life After Coal in Harlan County, U.S.A.
Kentucky's lifeblood is drying up.
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein

Rural America
The Rural Healthcare Crisis: Why Obamacare Needs to Cure Itself…and Soon
John Collins

Labor
The Verizon Strike Is Not Just About Wages. It Is About Power and Domination Over Workers.
Alex Gourevitch

Feature
One of the Inventors of Superdelegates Explains Why They Were Created: To Stop ‘Outlier Candidates’
A member of the 1982 commission explains why they created superdelegates and what they hoped to prevent.
Branko Marcetic
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 UnionWU, 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.