The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

The Rising American Student Movement Is Part of a Battle for the Soul of Higher Education

Keep an eye on college campuses. The battles fought there are going to matter for the wider world tomorrow.

Aviva Chomsky

Labor

Progressive Nonprofits That Oppose the New Overtime Rules for Low-Income Workers Are Hypocrites

Ethan Miller

Feature

Life After Coal in Harlan County, U.S.A.

Kentucky's lifeblood is drying up.

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein

Rural America

The Rural Healthcare Crisis: Why Obamacare Needs to Cure Itself…and Soon

John Collins

Labor

The Verizon Strike Is Not Just About Wages. It Is About Power and Domination Over Workers.

Alex Gourevitch

Feature

One of the Inventors of Superdelegates Explains Why They Were Created: To Stop ‘Outlier Candidates’

A member of the 1982 commission explains why they created superdelegates and what they hoped to prevent.

Branko Marcetic

Rural America

Big Oil Plots to Exclude Public from Public Land Auctions

Steve Horn

Labor

Can Labor Learn from Silicon Valley?

Michelle Chen

Feature

Norman Finkelstein’s ‘The Holocaust Industry’ and the Fight To Make All Suffering Count

Finkelstein's book is a call for Jewish suffering to be seen as part of the larger history of suffering under colonialism.

Max Ajl