The Wisconsin Idea

Comics

Adolf Trump

Matt Bors

Viewpoint

Why We Can’t Bridge the Gulf Between Donald Trump Supporters and the Rest of Us

When one side believes poor people, immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people and others deserve rights and the other doesn't, how can we possibly bridge the gap?

Waleed Shahid

Viewpoint

I Saw Disturbing Racism at Yale After 9/11. Sadly, It Seems Little Has Changed.

When will our universities stop treating students of color as throwaway items in the grooming of privileged white students?

Saqib Bhatti

Feature

Bernie Sanders Just Won TIME’s Person of the Year Reader’s Poll—And It Wasn’t Even Close

The democratic socialist came out far, far ahead of both Clinton and Trump.

Lauren Kaori Gurley

Culture

The Wrong Kind of Solidarity: The UK’s Decision to Join the Air Strikes on Syria

Why bombing Syria in an attempt to weaken ISIS is not the answer to the Paris attacks.

Jane Miller

Feature

What Corporate America Would Do If It Really Cared About Climate Change

CEOs are professing to care about the climate. But they're still funding Republican climate-change deniers.

Joe Conason

Rural America

Pesticide Industry Joins New York’s Pollinator Task Force—Bad News for Bees

Tracy Frisch

Labor

When Labor Groups and Silicon Valley Capitalists Join Forces to “Disrupt” Protections for Employees

Jay Youngdahl and Darwin BondGraham

Rural America

Political Economy

Mark Twain