The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

If We Can’t Ban Guns, Can We Make Them Safer?

As mass shootings mount, some activists believe they've found a smart way around the political gridlock.

Marc Daalder

Viewpoint

Robert Reich: Why Hillary Clinton Is Wrong for Refusing To Resurrect Glass-Steagall

Resurrection of the Glass-Steagall Act has become an important policy difference between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Robert Reich

Feature

Margaret Atwood on Climate Change, Her New Book and Why Socialists Are Better with Budgets

We asked the speculative fiction writer about this month's Canadian elections and (relatedly?) whether humanity is doomed.

Jessica Stites

Rural America

Greasing the System: Why Corporate ‘Rights’ Matter

Thomas Linzey

Labor

33 Workers Dead After U.S. Cargo Ship Lost at Sea. Could It Have Been Prevented?

Bruce Vail

Labor

The Fight for $15 Is Raising Wages. Now It’s Time for Step 2: Unions.

David Moberg

Culture

The Neverending Presidency: An Unfettered Look at How Democracy Lost to Mugabe

Camilla Nielsson’s new documentary, Democrats, is a study in how a dictatorship can weather a 'democratic transition'

Michael Atkinson

Feature

New Hillary Clinton Emails: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Sidney Blumenthal Urged Libya Military Action

The most recent release of Clinton's emails show the two liberal advisors strongly encouraging U.S. intervention against Libya.

Branko Marcetic

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