The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

With 19 Arrests and More Planned, Students Just Upped the Ante for Fossil Fuel Divestment

The new round of demands for divestment have taken place at nine universities, and more are coming.

Kate Aronoff

Dispatch

Thanks to #BlackLivesMatter, Prosecutors Who Bungle Police Shooting Cases Face Tough Election Fights

While recognizing the limits of electoral politics, the movement has ousted two prosecutors--Anita Alvarez and Tim McGinty--and has more in its sights

Jennifer Ball

Comics

Don’t Take the Subway During Election Time

Matt Bors

Rural America

What the Candidates are Saying About Agriculture

John Collins

Labor

New Report: 90 Percent of the World’s Domestic Workers Lack Social Security Protection

Elizabeth Grossman

Labor

After Contract Talks Break Down, Nearly 40,000 Verizon Workers Set To Strike Tomorrow

David Moberg

Feature

How Bernie Sanders Can Harness the Kind of Momentum Transforming British Politics

British activists could offer lessons for Americans who are feeling the Bern about how to transition from a political campaign to a long-term, mass movement.

Kate Aronoff

Viewpoint

The Paradox of Bernie Sanders and the Black Voter

Despite Sanders' historic election, we still don’t seem any closer to resolving the rancorous intra-left debates about race and class.

Salim Muwakkil

Viewpoint

From Broad City to the Era of the Single, Independent Woman: Female Solidarity Has Gone Mainstream

Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee and Rebecca Traister herald a new epoch of female independence

Susan J. Douglas