The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

The Historic Budget Crisis That’s Threatening the Future of Public Colleges and Universities

Illinois’ budget standoff poses an existential threat to public higher education in the state.

In These Times and Kartemquin Films

Rural America

How Chicken Farmers are Getting Clucked in a Supermarket Near You

s.e.smith

Labor

Trumpcare 2.0 Is a Death Bill. It’s Time to Fight for the System We Want.

Meaghan LaSala

Labor

Meet the Workers Who Took Overnight Buses to Bring the Fight for 15 to McDonald’s Stockholders

Stephen Franklin

Viewpoint

Don’t Mine What’s Ours

How a public-lands populism can fight Trump and the GOP.

Dayton Martindale

Culture

How the Threat of Apocalypse Justifies American Empire

A new book argues that in the military's hands, warnings of world's end become self-fulfilling prophecies.

Chris Lehmann

Feature

Puerto Rico’s Longest-Held Political Prisoner Just Walked Out of U.S. Prison

Oscar López Rivera was welcomed home by large crowds in the Chicago neighborhood where he once lived.

Martín Xavi Macías

Rural America

Four Academics from Texas Give Us the Lowdown on Energy Markets

The Conversation

Feature

The Surprising Cross-Partisan Appeal of Single-Payer Healthcare

Where Trump voters and socialists agree.

Theo Anderson