The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Yes, You Should Watch The Chi

The Showtime series may not be perfect, but it’s an illuminating look at Chicago beyond the violent headlines.

Salim Muwakkil

Rural America

A New Look at the Wartime History of Pesticides

Evaggelos Vallianatos

Feature

“Marriage and Love Have Nothing In Common”: Emma Goldman on Romance and Sexual Freedom

The anarchist, labor organizer and rabble rouser Emma Goldman published this essay, "Marriage and Love," in 1914.

Emma Goldman

Dispatch

Behind the Explosion in Socialism Among American Teens

The dramatic growth of YDSA chapters confirms that millennials don’t think capitalism is working for them.

Rebecca Stoner

Labor

The Stock Market Crash Reveals the Rot at the Core of Our Economic System

Matthew Cunningham-Cook

Rural America

How Big Ag Is Borrowing Big Tobacco’s Playbook

John Ikerd

Labor

How Progressives Can Criticize Trump’s $7 Trillion Deficit Without Preaching Austerity

Kate Aronoff

Dispatch

“We Won’t Let Him Sleep”: The Dreamers Hounding Chuck Schumer.

Talking immigrant justice with a DACA recipient taking the fight to Schumer’s doorstep.

Alex V. Hernandez

Culture

The Abyss of Motherhood

A tightrope walk without a safety net.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle