The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

How Activists Won Reparations for the Survivors of Chicago Police Department Torture

A history of the movement to make Chicago pay for the crimes of former police commander Jon Burge.

Flint Taylor

Labor

In China, Walmart Is Unionized, But Workers Have No Power on the Job

Bruce Vail

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