The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

The Laquan McDonald Email Dump Shows Rahm Emanuel’s Administration in Crisis Mode

A guide to the documents released by City Hall in the aftermath of the Chicago police shooting.

Rebecca Burns

Culture

Without Explosives or Lightsabers, ‘Sisters’ is a Quiet-er but No Less Feminist Film

In co-opting the party narrative for a feminist audience, Sisters does for comedies what the new Star Wars has done for action movies.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

The Bankruptcy of India’s Economic and Political “Miracle”

India is neither the vibrant global South democracy nor the poster child for globalization's benefits that global political elites have insisted it is for over a decade.

Kamil Ahsan

Dispatch

Why Compton Students Are Suing Their Schools

Nine in 10 6th grade students in the area have witnessed or experienced a violent crime. Is trauma counseling part of their right to an equal education?

Ethan Corey

Rural America

The Grouse That Roared: Will Voluntary Conservation Efforts Work in the Intermountain West?

Kendra Pierre-Louis

Viewpoint

Raise a Glass to These Progressive Victories in 2015

From the death of the Keystone XL pipeline to Fight for 15 victories, progressives made have major strides this year--thanks to groundwork laid over the past decade.

James Thindwa

Rural America

Living in the Shadow of Slurry: The Fight Against Coal in West Virginia

Junior Walk

Labor

The Radical Collective Action of Disney’s “Newsies” Is Still Relevant Today

Matt Hartman

Feature

Slavoj Zizek: The Need to Traverse the Fantasy

A call to mobilize Europe's radical-emancipatory tradition, and why we need a solidarity of struggles, not a "dialogue of cultures"

Slavoj Žižek