The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Think Free-Trade Deals Can Raise Labor Standards? This Case Suggests Otherwise.

Dan DiMaggio

Labor

How United Airlines’ Rapacious, Scandal-Ridden CEO Screwed Over His Own Company

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Feature

How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Jeopardize National Security

We are a "base nation," with soldiers and military bases circling the entire world.

David Vine

Comics

Kim Davis and the Future of Gay Liberation

Matt Bors

Culture

Clint Eastwood: The Good, the Bad and the Reactionary

Patrick McGilligan's unauthorized biography of the film legend, updated through 2015, suffers from bastard fatigue: There are just too many examples of Eastwood's perfidy.

Eileen Jones

Oklahoma Execution Looms but Lawyers say Richard Glossip “Sentenced to Death Because He’s Poor

George Lavender

Viewpoint

Meet the Group of African-American Organizers Building Black Support for Bernie Sanders

Will grassroots organizing within the black electorate be able to challenge Clinton’s hegemony?

Salim Muwakkil

Culture

In Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Novels, Women’s Rage Is Both Pardonable and Malevolent

The mysterious, wildly popular Italian novelist excels at crises and contradictions

Jane Miller

Rural America

Land Claims: An Indigenous People’s History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz