The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

How Union-Busting Bosses Propel the Right Wing to Power

Shaun Richman

Feature

Reality TV’s Culture of Rape and Exploitation Extends Far Beyond The Bachelor

Contestants and workers are having traumatic experiences in an industry that lacks a standard of informed consent.

Kitty Stryker

Labor

Thousands of Haitian Workers Are on Strike Against Foreign-Owned Sweatshops

Jeff Abbott

Feature

New York Is on the Verge of Major Climate Action—But Centrist Democrats Stand in the Way

Lawmakers stalled as advocates pushed to get an ambitious climate bill through the state senate before the legislative session ended.

Kate Aronoff

Feature

Defeating the Senate’s Trumpcare Bill Is a Life-or-Death Fight

An organizer for Nevada’s Working Families Party discusses the efforts in her state to block the Senate healthcare bill and push for single-payer.

Sarah Jaffe

Viewpoint

Ossoff’s Loss Is Further Proof: Democrats’ Path to Power Is Through Moving Left, Not Center

The results in Georgia show that the Trump resistance can show up to the polls, but centrism isn’t a strategy to win.

Theo Anderson

Rural America

Federal Judge: Environmental Law was Broken in Rushed Review of Dakota Access Pipeline

Joseph Bullington

Culture

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Examining Britain’s Populist Revolt

David Goodhart's The Road to Somewhere goes nowhere worth following.

Jane Miller

Culture

The Return of Nunsploitation

Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours is a clever update on Boccaccio's The Decameron.

Michael Atkinson