The Wisconsin Idea

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Small Stage, Big Impact: Former SNL Cast Member Gary Kroeger on Why He’s Running for Office

The progressive Democrat is hoping to carry forward Bernie Sanders' revolution in Iowa.

Theo Anderson

Labor

Buying Local Doesn’t Mean You’re Paying for Workers’ Rights

Margaret Gray

Culture

Walking While Black

Encounters with police in New York City.

Garnette Cadogan

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The Real World: Wrongful Convictions

In Unlocking the Truth, true crime gets the MTV treatment.

Katie Way

Labor

This is Huge: NLRB Rules Graduate Student Workers Can Unionize

David Moberg

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Robert Reich: Why a Single-Payer Healthcare System is Inevitable

Private markets for health insurance pose a structural problem, and Obamacare can't fix it.

Robert Reich

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Slavoj Žižek: Clinton, Trump and the Triumph of Global Capitalism

Why the Hillary Clinton consensus is a threat to democracy—and the Left.

Slavoj Žižek

Viewpoint

Hillary: Here’s a Stake, Find Neoliberalism’s Heart

We need Clinton to take up Bernie Sanders' progressive charge and end the long reign of market fundamentalism.

Susan J. Douglas

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How Past Victories For Gender and Racial Justice Made U.S. Olympic Success Possible

Women and African-American athletes show us what’s at stake in this year's election.

Marilyn Katz