The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” Forever Changes the Meaning of ‘The American Dream’

How to make Americans accept that their country was built and sustained on white supremacist plunder? Write like Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Salim Muwakkil

Labor

Thousands of Garment Factory Workers Across Cambodia Are Fainting on the Job

Michael Arria

Labor

Why I Introduced a Motion Against the Confederate Flag at the NEA Convention

Fred Klonsky

Feature

Underneath the Laughs, ‘Trainwreck’ Is Just Another Regressive Rom Com

For all its wit and unabashed vulgarity, Amy Schumer's film follows a tired formula

Eileen Jones

Viewpoint

Taxing the Rich is the Only Real Solution to Illinois’ Budget Deficit

Corporate tax loopholes have been very effective at draining at least a billion dollars a year out of public funds and redirecting it into idle private profits.

Jamie Merchant

Labor

In the Information Economy, Workers Are Far From Obsolete

Doug Henwood

Labor

N.M. Field and Dairy Laborers Win Right To Workers’ Comp—Court Calls Exemption ‘Absurd’

Joseph Sorrentino

Dispatch

The Climate-Change Movement Is Winning the Argument—Now It Must Force the Government To Act

How can we turn up the heat on Washington.

Kate Aronoff

Rural America

The Stolen Children of Maine: Native Wabanaki Seek Truth, Reconciliation Amidst a Cultural Genocide

Dayton Martindale