The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Marco Rubio’s Prison Problem

As the FBI investigates $120 million in subsidies for a new private prison in Florida, the new U.S. senator could end up in the hot seat over close ties to prison operator Geo Group.

Beau Hodai

Labor

Cairo: One Day after Mubarak

Carl Finamore

Dispatch

Belo Monte and Brazil’s ‘Pandora’

Can a massive dam project in the Amazon be stopped?

Kenneth Rapoza

Dispatch

Dear ITT Ideologist: Executive Functions and the Search for 2008

Pete Karman

Labor

Payday Lenders Peddle Toxic Debt in Communities of Color

Michelle Chen

Video

Egypt’s Big Party

Jeremy Gantz

Labor

Race to the Bottom: Ravitch Says ‘School Reformers’ Scapecoat Teachers, Ignore Poverty

Roger Bybee

Labor

Bread and Butter Revolution: Egypt’s Workers Mobilize for a New Future

Michelle Chen

Weekly Mulch: Monsanto’s Mutant Alfalfa and the Feral Pig Invasion

Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger