The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

What a Janitor Found at a Border Patrol Processing Facility

Tom Kiefer spent years collecting items confiscated and thrown away by border patrol

Féi Hernandez

Feature

Red-Baiting Won’t Stop Bernie Sanders. The Democratic Debate Shows Why.

Moderators and candidates tried to weaponize democratic socialism to attack the front-runner.

Mindy Isser

Feature

Why Democrats Need To End the Filibuster

If they actually want to get anything done, Democrats need to kill the filibuster—now.

In These Times Editors

Feature

The Media Doesn’t Know How to Process the Fact That Bernie Sanders Is Winning

Corporate media has moved from denial to anger.

Jim Naureckas

Labor

New England UAW Workers Join Parade of Local Unions Endorsing Bernie Sanders

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

Bernie Sanders Is the Only Leading Presidential Candidate Publicly Opposing the Patriot Act

Many Democrats are still acquiescing to a George W. Bush-era policy that has been in place for nearly 20 years.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

The Culinary Workers Run Vegas. The Politicians Are Just Visiting.

Hamilton Nolan

Dispatch

He Sued Chevron and Won. Now He’s Under House Arrest.

Chevron is using the U.S. courts to avoid paying out $9.5 billion for environmental damage—and to silence lead lawyer Steven Donziger.

Christine MacDonald

Feature

Superdelegates Were Designed To Stop a Candidate Like Bernie

Of course the establishment candidates approve of superdelegates—these unelected electors were created precisely to protect the party elite.

Branko Marcetic