The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

A Privatized River Runs Through It

To win its eminent domain suit, Missoula must prove that it is the best manager of its drinking water.

Kate Whittle

Feature

Actually, Mad Max: Fury Road Isn’t That Feminist; And It Isn’t That Good, Either

Turns out the MRAs aren't the best judges of feminism.

Eileen Jones

Feature

Oxford University to Divest from Fossil Fuels

Oxford climate activists are the latest to notch a victory against fossil fuel companies.

Lauren Gaynor

Feature

Why the U.S. Spent Billions on an Army that Conscripted Child Soldiers

Was that in the "national interest of the United States?"

Nick Turse

Feature

The End of Mad Men and the Rise of Women

None of the women of Mad Men end up where they wanted to be. But they struggled, and they did rise.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Comics

Justice Kennedy’s Swing Vote Secrets

Matt Bors

Labor

Factory Fire in the Philippines Leaves 72 Dead

Lauren Gaynor

Labor

Bruce Rauner’s Right-to-Work Bill Can’t Get a Single ‘Yes’ Vote—Even from Republicans

David Moberg

Labor

“It Is Right to Resist”: The Revolutionary Art of Pilsen’s Jose Guerrero

Kari Lydersen