The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

The Heroin Crisis We’ve Ignored

A compassion deficit afflicts Black and Latino users.

Kari Lydersen

Rural America

American Cows are Eating Skittles and Other Reasons Why the 2018 Farm Bill is Important

John Collins

Viewpoint

Why the U.S. Is a Bigger Threat Than North Korea

Decades of military adventurism have done more to destabilize the world than any of the "rogue states" the U.S. targets.

Vijay Prashad, Alternet

Labor

Interviews for Resistance: How To Stop “Neoliberalism on Steroids”

Sarah Jaffe

Viewpoint

This Could Be Reparations’ Best Chance Since 1865

Black activist groups across the political spectrum are uniting behind reparations.

Salim Muwakkil

Viewpoint

Why the Corporate Media Loves a Bombing

From Syria to North Korea, the press is growing hungry for war.

Bill Berkowitz

Feature

Mélenchon’s Campaign To Transform French Politics From the Left

The Bernie Sanders of France offers a progressive populist program to remake the Republic.

Cole Stangler

Labor

The Looming Writers Strike Is About Much More Than What’s On TV

David Dayen

Viewpoint

Should Democratic Socialists Be Democrats?

Democratic Socialists of America members debate how—and to what extent—socialists should engage with electoral politics.

Chris Maisano and Jessie Mannisto