The Wisconsin Idea

An MLK day thought from our circ director…

Jessica Clark

Viewpoint

Alito Hearings Drowning in Words

Flavia Colgan

Black Klansman???

Anna Schneider

Culture

Postcards From the Front

Recent Iraq soldier memoirs display a 'whatever, dude' detachment

Lakshmi Chaudhry

Viewpoint

Hello, Youve Got Smallpox

Terry J. Allen

Feature

Backdoor Draft, Back Again

Despite signaling that it would no longer tap the Individual Ready Reserve, the Army calls up more troops just in time for the holidays.

Christopher Hayes

Feature

Cult of Character

How the 'secular' Character Training Institute is working to build evangelist Bill Gothard's vision of a First-Century Kingdom of God--one city, one state, one school board, one police force and one mind at a time.

Silja J.A. Talvi

Viewpoint

Gay Rights Win in Maine Heralds Progress in 2006

Hans Johnson

Culture

The Northern Slave Trade

The hidden history of slavery in New York calls myths of American morality into question

Phyllis Eckhaus