[Imc-chicago-audio] Celebrating 30 years of In These Times

[Erin Polgreen]

MEDIA ALERT February 1, 2007 | For Immediate Release
Don’t trust anyone over 30—Except for In These Times

  To interview Tracy Van Slyke or Joel Bleifuss, contact Erin  
Polgreen at 773.772.0100 x225

With its February issue, award-winning, national news magazine In  
These Times celebrates its 30th anniversary.  For three decades, In  
These Times has featured award-winning investigative reporting,  
insightful analysis of national and international affairs and sharp  
cultural criticism about events and ideas that matter. To download a  
PDF of this issue, visit: http://www.inthesetimes.com/pdf/ 
InTheseTimes31-02.pdf

 From the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s to the controversy  
surrounding the 2004 presidential election, In These Times has  
provided coverage that unites and defines the progressive movement.  
The magazine was recently awarded the Utne Reader Independent Press  
Award for Best Political Coverage in 2006.

“In These Times has always been dedicated to the self-evident truth  
that a healthy democracy needs an independent press--a press willing  
to defend our ‘unalienable rights’ from attempts by government  
institutions or corporate interests to amend those rights for  
political or economic gain,” says Joel Bleifuss, Editor of In These  
Times.

And now, more than ever, independent publications like In These Times  
are needed. According to Publisher Tracy Van Slyke, “In the face of a  
consolidated and corporate media, our society needs independent  
reporting to provide truth and perspective.” Furthermore, In These  
Times has become a hub for the progressive movement, attracting “A  
young staff and diversity of voices to cover issues facing multiple  
generations of readers,” Van Slyke says. “I’m so proud of In These  
Times and hope it can keep shaking things up for another 30 years.”

The February issue of In These Times has been expanded to include a  
retrospective of In These Times’ noteworthy achievements authored by  
five former editors.

Also in this issue:
Karen J. Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and  
Security at NYU School of Law, has “8 reasons why Closing Guantánamo  
will save the US.” The most compelling? “Closing Guntánamo will help  
to restore America’s standing in the world and in the eyes of its own  
citizens. (Page 24)
Hir? Ze? Huh? If you’re confused by today’s PC lingo, Editor Joel  
Bleifuss’ “Politically Correct Lexicon” is for you. “Today, on both  
the left and the right,” Bleifuss writes, “being PC is no laughing  
matter. Three decades of culture wars have generated a bewildering  
thicket of terminology.” (Page 36)
And in “Eyes off the Prize,” Contributing Editor Jehangir Pocha  
examines the future of blooming superpowers China, India and Iran.  
“What we are seeing in these three ancient civilizations is not just  
a change or evolution, it is a paradigmatic shift that will challenge  
the basic framework of the post-WWII world,” Pocha writes. (Page 48)
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