The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint
We Won’t Improve Education By Making Teachers Hate Their Jobs
How can you improve education by attacking educators?
Jeff Bryant

Feature
Lawmakers Push for Chicago Police Accountability With New Legislation in Springfield
New legislation from Illinois' state capital wants to change the way police misconduct is handled.
Adeshina Emmanuel

Labor
Reformers Aim To Shake Up the New York City Teachers Union
Ari Paul

Feature
Ilan Pappe: Israel Is the Last Remaining, Active Settler-Colonialist Project
Ilan Pappe discusses Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders and the post-Zionist movement.
Eli Massey

Rural America
Creating and Maintaining the Plantation World in the Mississippi Delta
Cynthia M. Duncan

Culture
Even a Time Finance Columnist Is Now Questioning American Capitalism
Rana Foroohar's "Makers and Takers" breaks down crisis-prone U.S. economy
Chris Lehmann

Feature
The Most Important Thing Missing from Coverage of Syria: The Perspectives of Syrians Themselves
Given that Syrians are the ones most affected by the conflict, it's remarkable how little we hear from them.
Eli Massey

Rural America
God’s Red Pencil? CRISPR and the 3 Myths of Precise Genome Editing
Jonathan R. Latham

Labor
Why I Voted ‘Yes’ To Authorize My Union at CUNY To Call a Strike
Corey Robin
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
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