The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

Big Coal Is Using This Small Oklahoma Town as a Toxic Waste Dump

Now residents are fighting back.

Valerie Vande Panne

Labor

In Response to ICE Raids and Family Separation, Immigrant Communities Are Fighting Back

Tanner Howard

Viewpoint

Why Keith Ellison and Jeremy Corbyn Think We Should Cap CEO Pay

Does it make sense for a boss to earn more than 200 times what a worker does? The case for a maximum wage.

Dayton Martindale

Rural America

In Less Than One Generation, We’ve Lost More Than 10 Million Acres of the Best U.S. Farmland

Rural America In These Times

Feature

Investigation: Corporations Are Profiting From Immigrant Detainees’ Labor. Some Say It’s Slavery.

At privately run detention centers, immigrants say they're forced to work for $1 a day.

Victoria Law

Dispatch

At the University of Montana, You Must Pass an Anti-Rape Test Before You Register

After Jon Krakauer exposed a rape epidemic, the university embarked on a radical experiment in stopping sexual assault.

Gabriel Furshong

Labor

After Janus, Should Unions Abandon Exclusive Representation?

Kate Bronfenbrenner, Chris Brooks, Shaun Richman

Feature

Lessons From the First Palestinian Intifada

Recent Gaza demonstrations fall into a long tradition of mass unarmed protest.

Mason Herson-Hord

Feature

Progressives Have Won the Battle to Redefine What an “Establishment Candidate” Is

Recent elections show that in 2018, centrists no longer reign supreme.

Sean McElwee