The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint
You Don’t Have to Like Hillary Clinton—But Sexist Attacks On Her Supporters Are Shameful
The gendered attacks against Clinton and her supporters must come to an end.
Susan J. Douglas

Labor
Baltimore May Be the Next City to Adopt a $15 Minimum Wage
Bruce Vail
What Are People Saying About the Stanford Case?
George Lavender

Rural America
Extractive Economies Threaten an Ancient Grain in Minnesota
Laray Polk

Labor
What the Labor Movement Can Learn from Bernie Sanders’ Unapologetic Socialism
Joe Burns

Labor
Chicago Workers Are Close to Winning a New Paid Sick Leave Law
Jeff Schuhrke

Rural America
North Dakota Voters Side With Family Farms and Continue 84-Year-Old Ban on Corporate Ownership
Alex McLeese

Feature
Democrats Say Superdelegates Have Never Decided An Election. In 1984, They Thought the Opposite.
A review of newspaper reports from 1984 shows that Democratic officials believed the superdelegate system had "virtually assured" the nomination for the establishment candidate.
Branko Marcetic

Rural America
“We’ve Broken the Planet”: A Case for Liberation Ecology and the Rights of Nature
Thomas Linzey
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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