- "To free voters from the shackles of geography, Congress and states should pass statutes enacting proportional representation based on voting for individuals, which already have been proven in local elections." http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/14410/rigging_democracy/ 14 comments politics
- "The GOP’s 1 Trillion Dollar Lie How a right-wing whopper about the cost of welfare was born." http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/14343/gop_trillion_dollar_lie_welfare 9 comments economy
- Ground the Drones - It’s time for the peace movement to challenge the president’s foreign policies. http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/14189/ground_the_drones 11 comments politics
- Will Romney Really Create 12 Million Jobs? Ask Sensata Workers http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/14065/sensata_the_reason_romneys_wrong_for_america 5 comments politics
- While Romney was busy buying fancy cars, Obama was ensuring American cars are made in America by Americans. http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/13909/romney_loves_american_cars_obama_loves_american_car_workers1 32 comments politics
- The Right-Wing Machine Behind ‘School Choice’: Think public-school teachers are bad and vouchers are good? You may be prey to a well-funded stealth campaign http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/13849/the_right_wing_machine_behind_school_choice 56 comments politics
- Why the Economy Has Only Recovered for the One Percent | Absent a revitalized upsurge from labor and its allies like the Occupy movement that places inequality at the center of the presidential campaign in 2012, we can expect even further acceleration of wage-slashing from corporate America. http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/13391/reviewing_the_1_percent_economy/ 4 comments politics
- The Assault on Public Education -- One of America’s greatest achievements is being defunded and degraded by the dictates of the marketplace. BY NOAM CHOMSKY http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12985/the_assualt_on_public_education 3 comments politics
- soldiers at a base complained that doctors were reversing their PTSD diagnoses & branding them as personality disordered. A Dr warned his colleagues that a PTSD diagnosis can cost the taxpayer $1.5 million over a soldier's lifetime, so they'd better not "rubber stamp" PTSD diagnoses http://www.inthesetimes.com/duly-noted/entry/12800/branding_soldiers_with_personality_disorder/ 4 comments politics
- Police Turn Oakland Into War Zone - Uprising http://www.inthesetimes.com/uprising/entry/12184/police_turn_oakland_into_war_zone/#.tqgpghhiiuc.reddit 219 comments politics
- Alleged ‘Skills Gap’ Takes Spotlight Off Who’s to Blame for Massive Jobs Shortage : the usual stream of stories about America’s jobs crisis has been displaced by a story about the shortage of crucial skills among the jobless. http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/12154/alleged_skills_gap_takes_spotlight_off_massive_job_shortage/ 8 comments economy
- Kurt Vonnegut on why he never won the Noble Prize for Literature http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/1726/ 21 comments books
- New Drug Tests Target the Poor http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11786/new_drug_tests_target_the_poor#.tlu4x-dr15a.reddit 8 comments politics
- Noam Chomsky: "American decline is in no small measure self-inflicted. The comic opera in Washington this summer, which disgusts the country and bewilders the world, may have no analogue in the annals of parliamentary democracy." http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11806/america_in_decline/ 151 comments politics
- America will one day be remembered for having superseded the British Empire, protected the world from Fascism and outproduced the Soviet Union; only to be run into the ground by a decadent and corrupt elite who fled on THIS. http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3328/floating_utopias/ 4 comments politics
- PrintThe Sordid Sexual History of Dominique Strauss-Kahn - A conspiracy to keep DSK’s true identity out of the spotlight http://www.inthesetimes.com/main/print/7326/ 4 comments worldnews
- Murdering the Messenger - Anna Politkovskaya’s death raises an important question http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/7350/murdering_the_messenger 3 comments worldnews
- Super bugs now exist with gene that spreads. Bacteria that are completely resistant to antibiotics exist in 16 countries. http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/7308/resistance_is_fatal/ 145 comments science
- Imagine if Republicans in Congress threatened to defund the Supreme Court because they didn’t like one of its decisions. Well, that’s almost what's happening as Republicans in Congress threaten to defund the National Labor Relations Board. http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7276/republicans_threaten_to_defund_the_national_labor_relations_board/ 6 comments politics
- The ‘80s Origins of Today’s Anti-Muslim Bigotry - Why do so many see extremist acts by non-Muslims as mere isolated incidents, yet see extremist acts by Muslims as a systemic problem worthy of military invasions? http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/7043/the_80s_origins_of_todays_anti-muslim_bigotry/ 4 comments politics
- President Obama, the Jobs Crisis and Corporate America’s Game Plan. "They have no intention of committing any large part of their current $2 trillion cash hoard on investing and job creation in the U.S." http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6961/president_obama_the_jobs_crisis_and_corporate_americas_game_plan/ 4 comments politics
- What do you call it if you're forced to work seven days a week and not paid a dime? State-sanctioned slavery in America, in 2010. http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6784/georgia_prison_strike_a_hidden_labor_force_resists/ 9 comments politics
- Why Tax Cuts Don’t—and Won’t—Create Jobs. "...if banks and businesses have that record hoard of cash on hand why should their taxes be cut, in effect increasing even more that hoard of cash that isn't being invested? Won't they just continue to hoard the tax cut too?" http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6726/ 21 comments politics
- Kurt Vonnegut predicted it 6 years ago... "In case you haven’t noticed, they’ve already cleaned out the treasury [...] leaving your generation and the next one with a perfectly enormous debt that you’ll be asked to repay." http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/cold_turkey/ 6 comments politics
- When confronting racism in the United States, past and present activists for justice have repeatedly run into a problem: white people. http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6446/stuff_white_people_do/ 7 comments politics
- "Americans may believe the United States is set up for the middle class, and Europe is set up for the bourgeois. Or America is a great place to buy kitty litter at Wal-Mart and relatively cheap gas. But it is not designed for me, a professional without a lot of money. That’s who Europe is for" http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6194/ 7 comments reddit.com
- Tobacco giant Philip Morris found to be purchasing tobacco from landowners using child labor in horrible conditions in Kazakhstan (Video) http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6235/tobacco_giant_philip_morris_is_hooked_on_child_labor/ 4 comments worldnews
- Remember when the Interwebs believed that a private police force took over a town in Montana? Finally, here's the followup on how that ended. http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5446/the_strange_fruit_of_desperation/ 6 comments politics
- A drug company executive got up on stage with a PowerPoint presentation and explained how his company had created a disease http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5316/this_is_your_country_on_drugs 65 comments business
- Why Soldiers Rape: Culture of misogyny, illegal occupation, fuel sexual violence in military http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3848/ 5 comments politics
- McSexist -- McCain's war on women http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3799/ 4 comments politics
- Is the Fourth Estate a Fifth Column? Is Corporate media colluding with democracy’s demise? http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3790/is_the_fourth_estate_a_fifth_column/ 8 comments politics
- The Fog of War Crimes: Who's To Blame When "Just Following Orders" Means Murder? (Only 2 Marines in a Squad of 13 are facing Criminal Responsibility for 24 murders in 4 Separate Location in Haditha) http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3461/the_fog_of_war_crimes/ 6 comments politics
- Come on People! Bill Cosby is Right http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3416/come_on_people_bill_cosby_is_right/ 162 comments reddit.com
- Takeover Value Stems From Breaking Company Obligations to Workers http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3378/pirates_of_private_equity/ 4 comments reddit.com
- Floating Utopias - The degraded imagination of the libertarian seasteaders http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3328/floating_utopias/ 2 comments reddit.com
- The Enduring Lies of Ronald Reagan http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3242/the_enduring_lies_of_ronald_reagan/ 2 comments reddit.com
- GI Bill Fails Vets -- In These Times http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3134/gi_bill_fails_vets/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Drug Warriors Want Eye-Eating Fungus Massively Sprayed in Colombia http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2657/3 24 comments reddit.com
- Kurt Vonnegut: "Your Guess Is as Good as Mine" http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/print/2421/ 7 comments reddit.com