The Wisconsin Idea

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

Feature

The End of American Democracy: 30 Seconds to Midnight

A professor at Yale University talks about what history can teach us.

Matthias Kolb

Labor

6 Reasons Why Donald Trump Won’t Save American Jobs

Les Leopold