The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Yes, ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ Is Empowering. No, Having Sex with Your Stepdaughter Is Not Okay.

The film is rightly being cheered for showing a 15-year-old girl claiming sexual power. But the film—and its rave reviews—sometimes shy away from how rape culture and patriarchy can pervert that claim.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

California First State To Pay For Prisoner’s Sex Affirmation Surgery

George Lavender

Dispatch

The Bernie Debate: Would Sanders Advance Feminism and Racial Justice Better Than Clinton?

Feminists debate symbolism, socialism and racial politics in the presidential race

Kathleen Geier

Feature

Is Climate Change Causing Pre-traumatic Stress Disorder in Millennials?

Today's youth are coming of age in the age of extinction

Martin de Bourmont and Dayton Martindale

Rural America

Human Ego and the Grizzly Bear: Is the West Big Enough?

Dayton Martindale

Transgender Woman Who Took California to Court Over Cost of Surgery to be Paroled

George Lavender

Feature

A Year Post-Ferguson, the Nation’s Youngest and Boldest Movement Debates Reform vs. Revolution

A firsthand report from Cleveland at the first-ever Movement for Black Lives national strategy session.

Rachelle Hampton

Feature

When Detained Immigrant Children Got Adult Dose of Hep A Vaccine, Mothers Objected, To No Avail

250 children at the Dilley, Texas, detention center were improperly vaccinated, even when mothers showed proof of prior vaccinations

Joseph Sorrentino

Rural America

Starting in the Classroom: A Chicago Advocacy Group Helps Kids Rethink Food

Maia Welbel