The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

We Are In the Midst of a Black Power Renaissance

Under Trump, we are seeing a return to collective Black consciousness.

Salim Muwakkil

Feature

A New Study Shows Hillary Clinton’s Hawkishness May Have Cost Her the Election

The lesson for Democrats is clear: Embrace a strong anti-war program.

Branko Marcetic

Feature

‘Police Chose the Klan Over Our People’: On Resisting Racism in Charlottesville

When the KKK came to this city, communities mobilized for collective self-defense. Police were not on their side.

Sarah Jaffe

Culture

The Abolitionist of Walden Pond

Two hundred years after his birth, Henry David Thoreau is as relevant as ever.

Dayton Martindale

Feature

The Right Calls Climate Change a Leap of Faith. But Denial Is a Leap into the Abyss.

Climate change presents us with an existential challenge: Can humans muster the political will to save ourselves?

Theo Anderson

Feature

Not Your Sacrifice Zone: In Lead-Poisoned East Chicago, Residents Fight for Their Health and Homes

A public housing development was built on the site of a lead smelter. Now, residents are demanding justice.

Kaela Bamberger

Rural America

It’s Time to Talk (Again) about Sewage Sludge on Farmland

Laura Orlando

Labor

Is Guatemala the Next Uber Frontier? Taxi Drivers Say ‘Hell No’

Jeff Abbott

Viewpoint

We Have an Existential Imperative to Resist GOP Death Panels

The casualties of the war on health are real and imminent, not a hyperbolic exaggeration.

Joel Bleifuss