The Wisconsin Idea

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

Labor

How a ‘Right to Your Job’ Law Could Help Unions Fight Back Against ‘Right to Work’

Shaun Richman

Feature

Slavoj Zizek: In the Wake of Paris Attacks the Left Must Embrace Its Radical Western Roots

Zizek responds to his critics on the refugee crisis.

Slavoj Žižek

Viewpoint

The Paris Attacks Can’t Be Used To Limit Refugees or Blindly Bomb More Civilians

Our response to such unspeakable tragedies can't be to create even more tragedies in other countries.

Gregory Shupak