The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Obama’s in the Eye of the Beholder

Can the junior senator from Illinois be both a stalwart progressive and a post-ideological unifier?

David Moberg

Feature

Trending Toward Inanity

Mark Penn's new book, Microtrends, is so epically awful that it could take the entire polling industry down with it

Ezra Klein

Viewpoint

Crocker’s Kooky Economics

In his testimony to the House and Senate, even Ambassador Ryan Crocker's limited claims of economic success in Iraq were laughable

Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium

Viewpoint

Earth to Bush

While the prez pats himself on the back, 5 million more Americans have slipped into poverty, hunger and homelessness

Bernie Sanders

Dispatch

The Crime Against Debbie Almontaser

Even Bloomberg now admits that the victim of the New York "Intifada" t-shirt hysteria is no terrorist

Robert Hirschfield

Risking Everything To Write The Truth

Erin Polgreen

The President’s Next Evasion

Erin Polgreen

Feature

Who Does U.S. Food Aid Benefit?

Current policies favor giant shipping companies and agribusinesses over the starving populations they are supposed to serve

Megan Tady

Feature

On Strike Without a Union

Cygnus employees prove they are a 'pea that weighs a pound'

Kari Lydersen