The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

A Brief Case for Prison Abolition

We know prisons are racist, classist and abusive. Are they also obsolete?

Dayton Martindale

Culture

The Uncolonized Mind: An Iraqi-American Artist Explores Memory, Star Wars and Bad Translations

Michael Rakowitz on his latest exhibition.

Tamara Nassar

Feature

The 10 Best Off-the-Beaten-Path Films of 2017

Film is dead. Long live these films.

Michael Atkinson

Labor

Why We Shouldn’t Fall for the Members-Only Unionism Trap

Chris Brooks

Rural America

Drain the Metaphor: Why the Media Needs to Rethink the Way It Talks About Swamps

Emeline Posner

Labor

This Florida Stealth Offensive Against Unions Could Preview GOP Onslaught in 2018

Michael Arria

Feature

J20 “Not Guilty” Verdict Deals Blow to Trump Admin and Shows the Power of Collective Defense

A defendant on why dissenters everywhere should feel emboldened by the outcome of the first trial.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

#MeToo In the Fields: Farmworkers Show Us How To Organize Against Sexual Violence

Sarah Lazare

Culture

Beyond Vibrator Feminism

Orgasms will not set us free.

Jessa Crispin