The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Scroungers and Strivers

We are encouraged to sneer at poverty and hardship.

Jane Miller

Feature

An Open Letter to Professor Noam Chomsky

What 'Gaza Under Assault' got wrong.

Bianca Ambrosio

Feature

The GOP’s 1 Trillion Dollar Lie

How a right-wing whopper about the cost of welfare was born.

Joshua Holland, AlterNet

Feature

Sore Losers

How bitter Republicans and their backers rammed through a union-destroying bill in Michigan.

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

Labor

Flammable Material: How Garment Workers Can Respond to the Tazreen Factory Fire

Michelle Chen

Vital Signs: Power to the People After Sandy; Occupy Boehner’s Stocking

Ben Lorber

Labor

What’s Next for Michigan Unions?

Bruce Vail

Labor

Illinois Coal Bankruptcy: Good News for Environment, Bad News for Workers

Kari Lydersen

Culture

Twilight of the Twi-Hards

The triumph of Team Katniss.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle