The Wisconsin Idea
Viewpoint
14 Years After the U.S. Invasion, the War in Afghanistan is Impossible to Justify
Afghanistan is yet another bloody quagmire for the United States that has helped create more rather than less dangerous enemies.
Marc Daalder
Rural America
The Puppetmasters of Academia: What the New York Times Left Out of Its GMO Exposé
Jonathan R. Latham
Culture
When the Bank Robs You
Mehrsa Baradaran's How the Other Half Banks tells the history of banks robbing from the poor and giving to the rich--and explains how we can stop it.
David Dayen
Comics
The Truth About Pope Francis’s Communist Abduction
Matt Bors
Labor
Wave of Digital Media Organizing Continues as Al Jazeera America Goes Union
Mario Vasquez
Labor
Rich Guy’s Inequality Fix: Raises for Workers. Just Kidding! It’s ‘Give Free Stuff to Rich Guys’
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
Feature
Remembering—and Forgetting—the Lessons of Chicago’s 1995 Heat Wave
The reissue of sociologist Eric Klinenberg's classic book on the deadly heat wave should remind us that such disasters are anything but natural.
Daniel Hertz
Viewpoint
The (R)evolutionary Vision and Contagious Optimism of Grace Lee Boggs
Boggs' love for humanity ran strong and deep, serving as a generative force for creating change.
Barbara Ransby
Culture
How California Birthed the Modern Right Wing
Many of 20th-century conservatism's tricks were honed in 1930s agribusiness's fight against farmworkers
Chris Lehmann
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