The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

Why Compton Students Are Suing Their Schools

Nine in 10 6th grade students in the area have witnessed or experienced a violent crime. Is trauma counseling part of their right to an equal education?

Ethan Corey

Rural America

The Grouse That Roared: Will Voluntary Conservation Efforts Work in the Intermountain West?

Kendra Pierre-Louis

Viewpoint

Raise a Glass to These Progressive Victories in 2015

From the death of the Keystone XL pipeline to Fight for 15 victories, progressives made have major strides this year--thanks to groundwork laid over the past decade.

James Thindwa

Rural America

Living in the Shadow of Slurry: The Fight Against Coal in West Virginia

Junior Walk

Labor

The Radical Collective Action of Disney’s “Newsies” Is Still Relevant Today

Matt Hartman

Feature

Slavoj Zizek: The Need to Traverse the Fantasy

A call to mobilize Europe's radical-emancipatory tradition, and why we need a solidarity of struggles, not a "dialogue of cultures"

Slavoj Žižek

Culture

Why Philanthropy Actually Hurts Rather Than Helps Some of the World’s Worst Problems

"Philanthrocapitalists" can't resolve the problems created by capitalism.

George Joseph

Labor

A Holiday Recipe for Economic Equality—in Just 7 Simple Steps!

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Viewpoint

The New Star Wars Film is the Same Old Hackneyed Nonsense—Please Don’t Kill Me for Saying It

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens racking up more and more acclaim, have audiences forgotten the narrative complexity and moral ambiguity cinema is capable of?

Eileen Jones