The Wisconsin Idea

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DeRay Mckesson’s Baltimore Mayoral Run Has a Teach For America Problem

The media's favorite poster child for Black Lives Matter, DeRay Mckesson, came up through the school privatization movement's favorite organization

Drew Franklin, AlterNet

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Why Evangelicals Are Flocking To Donald Trump

Trump is beating Bible-thumping Ted Cruz among evangelicals. What do they see in a formerly pro-choice New York real estate mogul?

Theo Anderson

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Repulsed by Pharma-Bro Martin Shkreli? Maybe You Also Hate Capitalism.

Far from being some kind of moral outlier, the pharma-bro embodies all of our economic system's defining characteristics.

Jesse Myerson

Rural America

Livestock and Wolves: A Guide to Nonlethal Tools and Methods to Reduce Conflicts

John Collins

Labor

Remember How Jeb Bush Dismantled Florida’s Department of Labor?

Spencer Woodman

After Decades In Solitary Confinement Judge Orders Last Member of Angola 3 Released

George Lavender

Culture

In Bed with the Surveillance State: Laura Poitras’ Intimate New Whitney Show

The filmographer best known for Citizenfour reveals the inside workings of our post-9/11 world

Liz Pelly

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NY Times Rounds Up ‘Left-Leaning Economists’ Opposed to Bernie Sanders for a Unicorn Hunt

So slight is these economists' leftward lean that it would require very sensitive equipment to measure.

Doug Henwood

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We’re Rethinking Prisons. Is It Time to Rethink Sex Offender Registries?

Criminal justice reform is in the air. But not for everyone.

Erica R. Meiners