The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Six Flags Great America Not So Great for Foreign Work-Visa Students

Rebekah Frumkin and Enrica Nicoli-Aldini

InvestigationGoodman Institute

At Angola Prison, Getting Sick Can Be a Death Sentence

A 6-month investigation into the largest maximum-security state prison in the country.

Katie Rose Quandt and James Ridgeway

Culture

The Android Manifesto: Finding Marx in Westworld

The HBO drama is a surprisingly astute tale of alienated labor and false consciousness.

Eileen Jones

Labor

With Too Few Workplace Inspectors, OSHA Targets Worst of the Worst

Paul Feldman and Stuart Silverstein

Feature

Rogue One May Be the Most Leftist Star Wars Film Yet

In the age of Trump, we need all the rogues we can get.

Kate Aronoff

Feature

The GOP Made Kansas a Test Case for Faith-Based Economics. The Results Aren’t Pretty.

Many of the same policies that blew a hole in the state budget are headed to the White House.

Theo Anderson

Culture

Dissident-Poet on the Lam: A New Film Captures Pablo Neruda’s Year as a Fugitive

Pablo Larrain's Neruda follows the love-poet-cum-Communist-dissident in a cat-and-mouse chase with the Chilean government.

Michael Atkinson

Labor

“Si se Pudo!”: Hotel Workers Win Union in Santa Monica, California

Samantha Winslow

Feature

Did Trump Retaliate Against Twitter Because It Refused to Help Him Build a Muslim Registry?

The official explanation for why CEO Jack Dorsey didn’t get an invite to Trump’s tech meeting leaves a lot to the imagination.

Kate Aronoff