The Wisconsin Idea

Comics

The GOP Is Responding to ISIS Just as They Wanted

Matt Bors

Rural America

An International Farmers Alliance Links Climate Change to Industrial Agriculture

Rural America In These Times

Labor

IKEA Workers in Massachusetts Walk Out on One Day Strike Amidst Drive to Unionize

Chris Brooks

Culture

Trapped in the Prison of Right-Wing Pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s Paranoid Mind

A stint in the slammer convinced the conservative author that liberals are crooks, as he lays out in his new book Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary and the Democratic Party.

Chris Lehmann

Feature

After Teachers Expose Racist Phonics Curriculum, Minneapolis Schools Cut Contract

Activists said the reading materials were untested, insensitive and clueless.

Sarah Lahm

Viewpoint

What Was Won and Lost in Steven Salaita’s University of Illinois Settlement

Salaita’s settlement is a victory for him and academic freedom. But will we ever know who was watching him—and us?

Marilyn Katz

Labor

Don’t Scapegoat College Football Players for the Underfunding of American Higher Education

Frank Manzo IV

Viewpoint

3 Winners and 3 Losers from the Second Democratic Debate

Parsing the results of the Iowa debate.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Documenting the Rise and Fall of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green Public Housing Projects

A new film traces the history of America's most famous—and infamous—housing projects.

Maya Dukmasova