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Working In These Times

"Working In These Times" is dedicated to providing independent and incisive coverage of the labor movement and the struggles of workers to obtain safe, healthy and just workplaces.

• 24 May 13

• Mississippi Lavishes $1.3 Billion in Subsidies on Nissan as Workers Get the Shaft

  Thirteen years after Japan-based automaker Nissan chose the small, impoverished community of Canton, Miss., as the site of… MORE »

  BY Roger Bybee

• 24 May 13

• Ballpark Workers Ask Giants Fans Not To Cross Picket Lines

  Baseball may be America’s pastime, but concessions workers in the San Francisco Giants' ballpark say it’s… MORE »

  BY George Lavender

• 22 May 13

• The Axe Falls on 50 Chicago Public Schools

  At times, the meeting of the Board of Education of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) on Wednesday took on the air of a mass mock… MORE »

  BY David Moberg

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Duly Noted

At Duly Noted, Lindsay Beyerstein dives into the news of the day while analyzing politics, media and culture. But it's not all commentary—she'll also rake some muck.

• 24 May 13

• Are You My Daddy?

  Sarah Polley's new film, “Stories We Tell,” is a documentary about unraveling a family secret. At the age of 28, Polley… MORE »

• 16 May 13

• Boobs React to Angelina Jolie’s Preventive Mastectomy

  Natural News is a moral and intellectual cesspool, but founder Mike Adams may have hit a new low with his vitriolic attack… MORE »

• 30 Apr 13

• Cupcake Feminism

  Food writer Michael Pollan is an evangelist for home cooking as path to healthy eating and food justice. In some of his bestselling… MORE »

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Uprising

The latest on social movements in the United States and around the globe, edited by In These Times Associate Editor Rebecca Burns.

• 24 May 13

• Activists Are Marching Against Monsanto This Weekend. Here’s Why.

  Reprinted with permission from AlterNet. Fed up with the fact that she has to spend “a small fortune” in order… MORE »

• 23 May 13

• Chicago Public Housing Residents Sue, Citing Broken Promises

  One of the last vestiges of the Cabrini-Green public housing complex on Chicago’s Near North Side, the Frances Cabrini… MORE »

• 22 May 13

• How an 82-Year-Old Nun Was Convicted of Violent Crimes of Terrorism

  Excerpted with permission from Alternet. Read the full version here. In just ten months, the United States managed to transform… MORE »

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The ITT List

And then there was blogging: The ITT List offers all the news that isn't fit to print, from In These Times magazine's staff, writers and friends.

• 24 May 13

• Alt Press Pick of the Week: Fracking Waste—Too Toxic for Toxic Waste Dumps

  Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, captures the attention of U.S. citizens far less than it should, considering that its… MORE »

  BY Alternative Press Center

• 20 May 13

• Alt Press Pick of the Week: Is Cyprus the Beginning of Another Economic Collapse?

  If you've ever played Super Mario Brothers, you've been to a world built in and on the clouds, mysteriously suspended… MORE »

  BY Alternative Press Center

• 16 May 13

• Alt Press Pick of the Week: Calling Out Sexism on the Left

  Rape allegations. Sexual harassment. Patriarchal abuse of power. No, this time the accusations are not against Catholic clergy… MORE »

  BY Alternative Press Center

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