The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

In 2028 Olympics, L.A. Residents See a Police State on Steroids

Community groups are torching the city’s Olympic plans.

Leighton Woodhouse

Rural America

How Corporate Science and Alternative Facts Limit Our Reality

John Ikerd

Feature

We Can’t Fight Trump-Style Hate with the Surveillance State

"Life After Hate" has attracted widespread support as an anti-racist organization. Yet, the group has a troubling history of collaborating with Islamophobic "war on terror" federal programming.

Debbie Southorn

Feature

The U.S.-Trained Warlords Committing Atrocities in Afghanistan

A village alleges dozens of civilian deaths at the hands of a single U.S.-trained strongman—just one example of the “Afghan special forces” to whom the U.S. has delegated its war.

May Jeong

Viewpoint

Heed the Lesson of 1932: Only Left Unity Can Defeat the Racist Right

We have our differences, but we also have the numbers.

Joel Bleifuss

Feature

After Irma, Can Private Utilities Be Trusted to Rebuild?

There’s an opportunity post-Irma to revolutionize Florida’s power supply, but Big Energy is not likely to rise to the occasion.

Kate Aronoff

Culture

Where Have All the Communes Gone?

Dusting off the dirty hippie.

Jessa Crispin

Rural America

In Rare Public Appearance, Smokey Bear Ignores Climate Change ... Just Waves

Rural America In These Times

Labor

Low Wages in Illinois: When Corporations Don’t Pay, the Public Does

Marilyn Katz