The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

2,054 Days of Solitary Confinement

A punishment that's cruel, but not unusual

Five Mualimm-Ak

Feature

Where Are the Black Panthers and Corporate Philanthropists When We Need Them?

Real change requires that we expand our understanding of what actions are needed on the part of the mayor, the police and any one who claims the mantle of the city’s leadership. Two films that premiered this past fall provide guidance of the kind of leadership that today is missing.

Marilyn Katz

Feature

Not Your Grandfather’s Black Freedom Movement: An Interview with BYP100’s Charlene Carruthers

The 30-year-old radical black queer feminist who's Rahm Emanuel's worst nightmare

Salim Muwakkil

Labor

Why Is SEIU Backing Hillary Clinton When Only Bernie Sanders Backs the Fight for 15 Campaign?

Jason Pramas

Feature

The Changing Tide in Argentina: An Assault on the Public Sector and a Shift Towards Austerity

Argentine President Mauricio Macri seems to be intent upon implementing austerity and significantly changing the course of the previous Kirchner governments.

Sara Kozameh

Feature

The New Yorker’s Blind Shooting at Bernie Sanders

Sanders' appeal to millennials isn't "retro"—it's because eight years after the Great Recession, young people are still feeling the squeeze.

Dean Baker

Labor

Brooklyn Sweet’N Low Workers Face Mass Layoffs To Make Way for Luxury Condos

Dan DiMaggio

Viewpoint

Rewriting the Progressive Playbook

To counter the resurgent Right, Wisconsin progressives are thinking big

Joel Bleifuss

Rural America

Lessons from the Original War on Coal: Class Conflict and the Fossil Economy

Dayton Martindale