The Wisconsin Idea
Rural America
The Rural-Urban Divide in Six Charts
The Conversation
Viewpoint
Trump vs. the Media: Who Will Win?
The media and Trump are in an all-out battle. Here’s what the mainstream press is doing well and what it needs to do better.
Susan J. Douglas
Dispatch
How San Francisco Student Activists Made College Free Again
City College of San Francisco will be the first in the nation to offer free tuition to all city residents.
s.e. smith
Feature
Pregnant Women and Mothers Are Being Criminalized By Their Care Providers
Under the guise of protecting children, American law makes motherhood even harder.
Linda C. Fentiman
Feature
Trump and the GOP Want to Make It Even Easier for Police to Get Military Gear
Should police get rifles, riot gear and armored vehicles from the Pentagon? The nation's largest police union thinks so—and it has the ear of the Trump administration.
Seth Kershner
Feature
Defending Truth Is a Radical Act of Resistance
The Trump administration’s gush of lies corrodes democracy on many levels.
Theo Anderson
ViewpointFeature
George W. Bush Was a Godawful President
The media's nostalgia for Bush is not only ill-informed—it's dangerous.
Branko Marcetic
Viewpoint
Don’t Wait for Nuremberg: Congress Must Investigate the American Eichmanns
Troubling reports suggest border agents are going above and beyond to enforce Trump's will.
Chris Edelson
Labor
Republicans Are Racing To Make Workplaces More Dangerous and Unhealthy
Elizabeth Grossman