The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

Why We Organized to Kick Riot Fest Out of Humboldt Park

Pushing the punk rock festival out of the park was a victory against gentrification and the privatization of public spaces.

Lynda Lopez

Rural America

The Land Institute Sows a Revolutionary Grass in Kansas

Maia Welbel

Dispatch

How Some Small Farmers Are Resisting Monsanto—And Climate Change

Seed sharers are resisting the death of biodiversity at the hands of industrial agriculture and GMOs.

Petra Page-Mann

Labor

Daniel Tobin and the Rise of the Teamsters Union

Bruce Vail

Labor

​Why Labor Should Get Behind Bernie Sanders in the Primary Elections

Steve Early

Culture

Detained at Her Majesty’s Pleasure

The UK keeps migrants in detention centres for unspecified periods of time.

Jane Miller

Feature

Meet the Latest Secret Free-Market Group That Wants to Take Over Your Public School

The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has been an invisible player in the free-market education reform movement.

Sarah Lahm

Labor

LA’s Min. Wage Will Be $15 by 2020. But This Bay Area City’s Minimum Will Be $14.44 By July.

Andrew Klein

Labor

A View of Germany’s Economy from Die Linke, the Left Party

Amien Essif