The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

What Happens When an Ayn Rand Devotee Runs a Public School System? Just Ask Chicago.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool has spent his career putting free-market ideology over the needs of workers, teachers and students.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Rural America

Standing Rock and the Militarized Response to Indigenous Movements Around the World

Jenni Monet

Labor

420,000 More Workers in Cook County Will Soon Have Paid Sick Leave

Jonathan Timm

Labor

Zuckerman v. Hoffa: Can a “Pissed-off Teamster” Push Out the Incumbent?

Alexandra Bradbury

Rural America

Activists to Congress: This New GMO Labeling Law “Doesn’t Pass the Laugh Test”

Tracy Frisch

Feature

Leaked Emails Show Hillary Clinton Would Likely Continue the Worst Parts of Obama’s Economic Legacy

Confirming progressives' suspicions, Clinton is shown hewing to the center on banking and entitlements.

Branko Marcetic

Feature

Trump Backers Who Said Bill Clinton’s Sex Life Ruined the Country Are Now Standing By Their Man

Politicians and pundits who waxed poetic about Bill Clinton’s illicit sex apparently see no problem with Trump's behavior.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Hey, Pundits: Stop Blaming Millennials For Trump—They Aren’t the Ones Voting for Him

Journalists who pin the rise of Trump on falling civic education standards ignore that young people are the least likely to vote for him.

Adam Johnson

Labor

What “TIFs” Are and How They Averted the Chicago Teachers Union Strike

Maha Ahmed