The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Staughton Lynd Is Building a New World in the Basement of the Old

The longtime lawyer and advocate on steel, SNCC and carving spaces beyond capitalism.

Moshe Z. Marvit

Labor

What Slashing the Labor Department Budget by 21 Percent Would Mean

Elizabeth Grossman

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