The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Reflections on Barack Obama: A Great and Disappointing President

Hope, change and the limits of the office.

Salim Muwakkil

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DOJ: To Address “Defective” Accountability System, Chicago Must Renegotiate Police Union Contracts

The DOJ's damning report found a pattern of racism and unreasonable force, and that contract provisions hinder investigations.

Adeshina Emmanuel

Rural America

New CDC Study Finds Big Difference Between Rural and Urban Mortality Rates

Rural America In These Times

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Corporate America is Inching Even Closer to a Constitutional Convention

In statehouses across the country, ALEC-backed legislators are pushing for a balanced-budget amendment, a repeal of the federal income tax and more.

Simon Davis-Cohen

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Why President Obama Must Grant Clemency to Chelsea Manning

The administration is considering whether to free the imprisoned whistleblower. She needs our support now more than ever.

Chase Madar

Labor

Deficits Matter—But Not in the Way Paul Krugman Thinks They Do

Kate Aronoff

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Interviews for Resistance: Mariame Kaba on Why the Time To Push for Single-Payer Is Now

The longtime organizer on how we can unite across difference to agitate for real progress under Trump—and push the Democrats left in the process.

Sarah Jaffe

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Either Rex Tillerson Lied Under Oath, Or He Doesn’t Understand How Fossil Fuel Subsidies Work

At Wednesday's confirmation hearing, Trump's secretary of state pick denied that Exxon Mobil receives subsidies. It does.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

Workers Say Trump’s Labor Secretary Nominee Is a Habitual Violator of Labor Law

Liza Featherstone