The Wisconsin Idea

Comics

What Trump’s Immigrant Test Will Look Like

Matt Bors

Feature

The National Security “Experts” Denouncing Trump Are a Who’s Who of Disastrous Neocons

The enemies of my enemy may be war criminals.

Rebecca Gordon

Labor

How We Won a Contract Against Austerity at CUNY

Barbara Bowen

Feature

20 Years After Welfare Reform, The Fight to Destigmatize Poor Black Mothers Continues

An interview with Maureen Taylor, a longtime economic justice advocate and chair of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization.

Premilla Nadasen

Culture

In Ixcanul, Guatemala’s First-Ever Oscar Entry, Feminism Erupts in a Small Mayan Community

Filmed entirely in Kaqchikel, Jayro Bustamante’s new movie explores a clash between reproductive rights and tradition.

Michael Atkinson

Rural America

Rural Stories Making Headlines (August 21, 2016)

Rural America In These Times

Rural America

Why Both Sides of the Sugar Tax Debate Have It Wrong

Victoria Albert

Feature

The U.S. Is Ending the Use of Federal Private Prisons—But That Won’t End Mass Incarceration

The news is a welcome reminder that marching in the streets can lead to reforms down the road.

Julia Clark-Riddell

Labor

SEIU’s “Future Fighters”: “We need a plan for racial justice in every union”

Chris Brooks