The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Why Silicon Valley Won’t Solve the World’s Problems

In Geek Heresy, former Microsoft do-gooder Kentaro Toyama reconsiders tech-based social-change initiatives.

Chris Lehmann

Feature

A Historian’s Case for Why We Should Stop Talking About the Founding Fathers

In American politics, the Founding Fathers are more propaganda than people.

David Sehat

Labor

After Striking and Occupying Their Factory, Chinese Bike Light Workers Face Firings and Arrests

Elaine Hui

Labor

Los Angeles Is Getting a $15 Minimum Wage

Lauren Gaynor

Labor

Walmart’s Absurd Anti-Union Training Video Just Got Leaked

Lauren Gaynor

Labor

Thousands of Fast Food Workers to Protest McDonald’s Shareholder Meeting Today

David Moberg

Culture

Inside the Happiness Racket

Can money buy happiness? A new book explores the history of those who have tried to sell it.

Joanna Scutts

Labor

Bill de Blasio Proposes a National Progressive Agenda to Rewrite the Rules of American Inequality

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Feature

Seymour Hersh’s Bin Laden Story Challenged the Power Structure—So Media Disregarded It

The veteran reporter's bombshell investigation into the killing of Osama bin Laden sparked a controversy in journalistic decency.

Jim Naureckas