The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Clint Eastwood: The Good, the Bad and the Reactionary

Patrick McGilligan's unauthorized biography of the film legend, updated through 2015, suffers from bastard fatigue: There are just too many examples of Eastwood's perfidy.

Eileen Jones

Oklahoma Execution Looms but Lawyers say Richard Glossip “Sentenced to Death Because He’s Poor

George Lavender

Viewpoint

Meet the Group of African-American Organizers Building Black Support for Bernie Sanders

Will grassroots organizing within the black electorate be able to challenge Clinton’s hegemony?

Salim Muwakkil

Culture

In Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Novels, Women’s Rage Is Both Pardonable and Malevolent

The mysterious, wildly popular Italian novelist excels at crises and contradictions

Jane Miller

Rural America

Land Claims: An Indigenous People’s History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Feature

Ten Thousand Is Not Enough: Why The U.S. Must Take More Syrian Refugees

Millions of Syrians have been forced from their homeland due to a conflict that we inflamed

Marc Daalder

Dispatch

After a 24-Year Gap, Chicago’s South Side Gets a Trauma Center

The result of years of organizing, the center fills a need in a badly underserved area

Zac Weber

Labor

Bernie Sanders: “Your Pay Is Too Damn Low”

David Moberg

Labor

Supporting Bernie Sanders Because He Supports Workers? David Brooks Thinks You Have a Mental Problem

Dean Baker