The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Documents Show Jerry Brown Giving Big Oil a Seat in Drafting Climate Policy

The California governor is selling himself as a climate advocate on the global stage, but behind the scenes, the fossil fuel industry appears to have his ear.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

In Defense of the Campus: Why the Left Must Not Write Off Universities

Ari Paul

Labor

Meet the Rough-and-Tumble Ironworker Ready to Unseat Paul Ryan

Sarah Jaffe

Culture

The Fairy Tales Capitalists Tell Themselves

The new book The Wisdom of Money amounts to morale-boosting capitalist agitprop.

Chris Lehmann

Culture

Beta Testing Fascism: How Online Culture Wars Created the Alt-Right

Angela Nagle's "Kill All Normies" charts the ideology's emergence from the internet's darkest corners.

John Michael Colón

Culture

Okja: The Veggie-Prop Children’s Film You Really Need to See

The director of Snowpiercer is back with a kiddie film that meets vegetarian propaganda, with surprising success.

Michael Atkinson

Rural America

The FCC’s New Chairman Plans to Take the “Local” Out of TV News in Rural America

Christopher Ali

Labor

Meet the Mom-and-Pop Company That Went from Union-Friendly to Union-Busting

Teke Wiggin

Feature

How Middle Schoolers Forced Their Administration to Stop Celebrating Indigenous Genocide

Students say their school should not be named after Alexander Ramsey, a historical figure who called for the extermination of Native Americans.

Sarah Lahm