The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Watch a Very ‘80s Bernie Sanders Make His Folk Music Album on a Public Access TV Show

A 1987 episode of Sanders's public access television show, Bernie Speaks, provides a look at the presidential candidate's musical side.

Lauren Gaynor

Labor

Connecticut Just Passed a Law Requiring Bosses Who Steal Workers’ Wages to Pay Them Back Double

Ava Tomasula y Garcia

New Lawsuit Alleges Systemic Abuse of Solitary Confinement in Illinois

Dayton Martindale

Comics

Public High Schools in Louisiana Are Now Using the Bible in Science Class

Matt Bors

Culture

The Tribe Is a Silent Lord of the Flies

Though entirely in Ukrainian Sign, without subtitles, Slaboshpytskiy's remarkable film will speak to a hearing audience.

Michael Atkinson

Feature

Three U.S. Churches Are Now Debating Divestment From Companies Invested in the Israeli Occupation

The debates come just after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared BDS activism to the Holocaust.

Ryan Rodrick Beiler

Viewpoint

The Anti-Union Bosses’ Group Fighting Fast Food Organizing Is Now Going After Home Care Workers

Can workers centers and unions create a movement strong enough to fight back?

Mariya Strauss, Political Research Associates

Feature

Dylann Roof’s Rhodesian, South African Flags Symbolize White Supremacy. So Does the Confederate Flag

That a racist mass murderer would embrace of the three flags should end the debates about whether or not the Confederate flag can mean anything other than racism.

Peter Cole

Rural America

Too Many Farmers? The Debate Continues

Fred Kirschenmann