The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

Harold Washington Remembered

Washington's candidacy forged political unity among Chicago's notoriously fractious black community and helped bring the city's feuding Latino groups (including Mexicans and Puerto Ricans) together

Salim Muwakkil

Feature

Kids LOL @ Navy Recruiters

Millennials, explained Arthur Mitchell, director of strategic planning for the Navy's Accelerate Your Life campaign, are "narcissistic praise junkies" and "a somewhat alien life force"

Aaron Sarver

Viewpoint

Talking American Democracy in China

Chinese democracy does not involve much voting, awareness of how the government works, information about politics, or what I like to call "facts," yet the Chinese government claims to be democratic, and many of my Chinese friends will agree that this is true

Mike Levy

Don’t Hold Your Breath

Jarrett

Feature

When Protectors Become Predators

Perhaps the greatest danger to endangered species is the Bush administration

Megan Tady

Comics

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Mikhaela B. Reid

Dispatch

Air Polluters Sail the High Seas

The environmental law firm EarthJustice, Friends of the Earth and other advocacy groups are taking action to compel the EPA to set comprehensive restrictions on the air pollution that clouds U.S. harbors

Michelle Chen

Culture

R.I.P. LiP

Amidst the demise of Clamor, Punk Planet, Satya and LiP, Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP reads like a super-special edition--complete with illustrations, a "theft ethics" quiz, a glossary of culture-jamming lingo and other useful appendices

Erin Polgreen

Viewpoint

Tax and Spend? Hell, Yeah!

Why does anyone need $50 million a year? What do you do with it--buy five houses in Aspen like Enron's Ken Lay did?

Susan J. Douglas