The Wisconsin Idea

Rural America

Lakota Lead the Fight Against the Dakota Access Pipeline

Jason Coppola, Truthout

Viewpoint

We Won’t Improve Education By Making Teachers Hate Their Jobs

How can you improve education by attacking educators?

Jeff Bryant

Feature

Lawmakers Push for Chicago Police Accountability With New Legislation in Springfield

New legislation from Illinois' state capital wants to change the way police misconduct is handled.

Adeshina Emmanuel

Labor

Reformers Aim To Shake Up the New York City Teachers Union

Ari Paul

Feature

Ilan Pappe: Israel Is the Last Remaining, Active Settler-Colonialist Project

Ilan Pappe discusses Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders and the post-Zionist movement.

Eli Massey

Rural America

Creating and Maintaining the Plantation World in the Mississippi Delta

Cynthia M. Duncan

Culture

Even a Time Finance Columnist Is Now Questioning American Capitalism

Rana Foroohar's "Makers and Takers" breaks down crisis-prone U.S. economy

Chris Lehmann

Feature

The Most Important Thing Missing from Coverage of Syria: The Perspectives of Syrians Themselves

Given that Syrians are the ones most affected by the conflict, it's remarkable how little we hear from them.

Eli Massey

Rural America

God’s Red Pencil? CRISPR and the 3 Myths of Precise Genome Editing

Jonathan R. Latham