The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

In Gaza, the Drones Never Sleep

Atef Abu Saif's wartime diaries offer a chilling voice of witness from Israel's 50-day bombardment of Palestine during Operation Protective Edge.

Nancy Kricorian

Feature

While You’re Busy Mocking Abigail Fisher, the Powerful Racist Forces Behind Her Are Getting a Pass

It might feel good to mock "Becky with the bad grades," but focusing on her lets the real power players in her anti-affirmative action case off the hook.

Jon Booth

Labor

Labor Research and Action Network Aims To Connect Researchers and Scholars with the Labor Movement

Jeff Schuhrke

Culture

The Tragedy of Brexit

In Thursday's Brexit referendum, Britain decided its fate. But what will that fate be?

Jane Miller

Culture

Sex, Violence and Unions

Workers in porn and wrestling face similar obstacles to effective labor organizing—and may need to work together.

Jetta Rae

Rural America

Scalawags, Rednecks, Mudsills and Swamp People: 400 Years on America’s Fringe

John Collins

Feature

Betraying Progressives, DNC Platform Backs Fracking, TPP and Israel Occupation

Appointees by Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman-Schulz resoundingly rejected proposals put forth by Bernie Sanders surrogates.

Lauren McCauley

Feature

Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism and the Failures of the Left

Rather than criticizing and working against the rise of a free market-oriented liberalism, sociologist Daniel Zamora argues that Foucault was actually somewhat sympathetic to it.

Daniel Zamora and Dave Zeglen

Labor

South Korean Independent Labor Leader Faces 8 Years in Jail for Union Protests

Yi San