The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

Why Slavoj Zizek Is Wrong About the Syrian Refugee Crisis—And Psychoanalysis

A response to Zizek's recent In These Times piece.

Sam Kriss

Feature

Jews Without Money: Toward a Class Politics of Anti-Zionism

Zionism began as class-oriented project within the Jewish community. Opposing it requires a class analysis of who benefits from Zionism within that community.

Benjamin Balthaser

Comics

The GOP Is Responding to ISIS Just as They Wanted

Matt Bors

Rural America

An International Farmers Alliance Links Climate Change to Industrial Agriculture

Rural America In These Times

Labor

IKEA Workers in Massachusetts Walk Out on One Day Strike Amidst Drive to Unionize

Chris Brooks

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