The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Illinois College Faculty Say Continued Cuts Have ‘Ripped the Guts Out’ of Public Higher Ed

Branko Marcetic

Feature

Bernie Sanders’ and Donald Trump’s Popularity Shows that America Is Tired of ‘Limousine Liberalism’

Disillusioned and disgruntled, Americans are threatening the status quo from all sides.

Steve Fraser

Labor

How Can We Make Restaurant Jobs Into Good Jobs?

Seth Kershner

Labor

The Verizon Strike Shows that Average Workers Can Still Beat Corporate Giants

Dan DiMaggio

Rural America

Why Philanthrocapitalism, Technology and Good Intentions Have Failed to End Hunger

David Rieff

Culture

The Case Against Using the GDP as a Measure of Economic Health

The GDP has always been a bitterly contested yardstick, explains Ehsan Masood in a new history.

Chris Lehmann

Rural America

The War Prayer

Mark Twain

Feature

In God We Don’t Trust: Growing American Secular Movement Rallies in D.C. This Week

The "Reason Rally" features Bill Nye, Margaret Cho, Wu-Tang Clan and others as secular groups borrow playbooks from the LGBTQ movement and the Religious Right.

Art Levine

Viewpoint

The Case for a One-Person, One-Vote National Primary To Nominate Our Presidential Candidates in 2020

State contests would be held first to reduce the field.

Rob Richie