The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Feticide Laws Are Disproportionately Used Against Women of Color

Purvi Patel's 20-year prison sentence for a miscarriage is part of a larger pattern.

Rachelle Hampton

Video

Bernie Sanders Now Has a Rap Theme Song—And It’s Not Bad

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Rural America

Out of Site, Out of Mine: Who Pays When Toxic Sludge Escapes?

John Collins

Labor

Indiana University Health Nurse Who Wanted to Unionize Fired—Then Un-Fired

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Feature

Bernie Sanders Speaks to 28,000 People in Portland, While Hillary Hosts $2,700-a-Head Fundraiser

The contrast between candidates could not be more stark.

Zaid Jilani, Alternet

Feature

The Union Behind the Biggest Campaign Against Walmart in History May Be Throwing in the Towel. Why?

With major cuts rumored, the future of the campaign against America's largest private employer is uncertain.

David Moberg

Feature

Yes, ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ Is Empowering. No, Having Sex with Your Stepdaughter Is Not Okay.

The film is rightly being cheered for showing a 15-year-old girl claiming sexual power. But the film—and its rave reviews—sometimes shy away from how rape culture and patriarchy can pervert that claim.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

California First State To Pay For Prisoner’s Sex Affirmation Surgery

George Lavender

Dispatch

The Bernie Debate: Would Sanders Advance Feminism and Racial Justice Better Than Clinton?

Feminists debate symbolism, socialism and racial politics in the presidential race

Kathleen Geier