The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Artist Molly Crabapple on Refusing Lena Dunham, Sketching Occupy and Achieving Cockroach-Free Hair

Molly Crabapple tells In These Times about her new memoir—and true to form, the interview is no-bullshit in tone and global in scope.

Rachel Luban

Dispatch

These Students Are Leading a Movement for Free College in the United States

At last, real organizing for tuition-free college is taking off in America.

Rebecca Nathanson

Labor

Chicago Teachers Union’s Overwhelming Approval of Strike Shows Power of Bottom-up Organizing

Micah Uetricht

Labor

Where Did the OUR Walmart Campaign Go Wrong?

Peter Olney

Rural America

Veganic: Do Organic Farming and Urban Food Justice Have Room for Animal Rights?

Dayton Martindale

Feature

Bringing Socialism Back: How Bernie Sanders is Reviving an American Tradition

The Sanders campaign is resurrecting socialist electoral politics and paving the way for a more radical public discourse.

Joseph M. Schwartz

Dispatch

Free Speech In an Age of Campus Protest

How the media can work for, and against, the wave of anti-racist actions by students

Jill Hopke

Culture

The Limits of Liberal Niceness in Aziz Ansari’s Master of None

Ansari and his character, Dev, genuinely want to do good. But they're missing the political framework.

Bhaskar Sunkara

Viewpoint

Why Zizek’s Critics are Wrong—and Where They Could Have Gotten it Right

Zizek's critique of the refugee crisis is more sophisticated than his critics are willing to admit—but he, too, missed something big.

Jamil Khader