The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

What We Can Learn From the Pacifist Movement Against World War I

Although they failed to keep us out of the war, they organized effectively in conditions frighteningly similar to our own.

Theo Anderson

Rural America

FDA Grants Additional Time for Citizens (and Food Companies) to Define ‘Healthy’

Coral Beach

Feature

How Corporations Rig the Rules and Crush Dissent

A new book by Gordon Lafer shines a spotlight on the super-rich.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Slavoj Zizek: Lessons From the “Airpocalypse”

On China's smog problem and the ecological crisis.

Slavoj Žižek

Viewpoint

Diane Ravitch: Trump’s Nominee for Secretary of Education Could Gut Public Ed

Billionaire Betsy DeVos will be great for private, religious and charter schools—and bad news for students and teachers.

Diane Ravitch

Feature

To Defeat Trump, We Must Make Ourselves Ungovernable

A grassroots organizer on noncompliance with Trump and how to build an eco-socialist alternative from the ground up.

Sarah Lazare, AlterNet

Labor

Only Organized Labor Can Save Illinois from Crisis

Tyler Zimmer

Feature

Rex Tillerson Could Be America’s Most Dangerous Secretary of State

The former Exxon Mobil CEO spent his entire adult life working for a company that has left a trail of carnage in its ruthless pursuit of oil.

Antonia Juhasz

Labor

Anti-union Effort in Kentucky Is Ripped Straight from the Koch Playbook

Mary Bottari