The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

The United States Isn’t an “Idiocracy.” It’s an Oligarchy.

In Mike Judge’s 2006 comedy Idiocracy, America kills itself with its own stupidity. But in 2016, our dystopic future looks more like Mad Max.

Kate Aronoff

Culture

The Hairdresser of Plaistow

The happy, often glamorous life of the man who cuts my hair.

Jane Miller

Labor

Hedge Funds Have Cost Workers Billions. This is How They’re Fighting Back.

Spencer McAvoy

Rural America

Toxic Algae Blooms are Occurring More Frequently and Lasting Longer

Lorraine Chow

Labor

Contract for Disaster: How Privatization Is Killing the Public Sector

s.e. smith

Feature

On National Security, Trump and Clinton Found Plenty To Agree On

And it's all terrifying.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

UPS Has a Racism Problem

Joe Allen

Feature

A Ballot “Blank-Out” Is Not a Strategy for Black Power

The Black electorate needs to think far beyond November 8—and to lead the progressive electoral movement.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Feature

This Is the Question That Will Decide the 2016 Election

Clinton talks about incremental change; Trump says the whole system is corrupt.

Theo Anderson