The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

How an Anti-Austerity Protest Candidate Became the Frontrunner for Labour’s Leadership

Jeremy Corbyn's left campaign is shaking up UK Labour

Jane Miller

Viewpoint

Bruce Rauner is Using a Manufactured Crisis to Bust Unions, Privatize Services and Destroy Pensions

The right-wing Illinois governor is slashing programs for the state and threatening bankruptcy for Chicago Public Schools instead of offering any revenue raising solutions.

Jennifer Ritter and Jacob Swenson-Lengyel

Dispatch

How One Group of Moms Is Keeping the Peace on One of Chicago’s Most Violent Street Corners

The group wants to make one thing clear: Young black men are not the enemy.

Lillian Osborne and Jessica Stites

Feature

Lessons from Tonkin and Libya: We Need a President Who Won’t Trick Us Into War

Deception about Libya--and possibly Syria as well--descends from Vietnam-era policies. Both major parties are guilty. Where do the 2016 candidates stand?

Stephen R. Weissman

Labor

Verizon Workers Prepare for a Strike Over Job and Benefit Cuts

Pam Galpern

Culture

Mr. Robot Is the Anti-Capitalist TV Show We’ve Been Waiting For

By placing class warfare front and center, Mr. Robot makes socialism a vibrant force again in popular culture, its aims urgent and compelling.

Brian Cook

Labor

Duquesne’s NLRB Filing Reads as a Brazen Threat To Adjunct Union Organizers

Moshe Z. Marvit

Video

ITT’s Micah Uetricht and Rachel Cohen on the Uphill Battle for Charter-School Unionization

Illan Ireland

Feature

Jose Antonio Vargas on White People, Trump and Bernie Sanders’ Black Lives Matter Problem

The undocumented documentarian discusses why white Americans—including presidential candidates—have trouble talking about race.

Karen Gwee