The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

Why One Community Voted to Tax Itself

Public mental healthcare has been gutted in the past 50 years. An innovative Illinois law may provide an answer.

Anne-Marie Cusac

Feature

Chicago Progressives: Examine the Election’s Numbers Before Patting Yourselves on the Back

The city's progressives should claim no easy victories.

Marilyn Katz

Viewpoint

A New Magazine for the 1%

The redesigned New York Times Magazine aims for a global outlook, but comes off as elitist.

Susan J. Douglas

Labor

With State Senate’s Approval, Right to Work Looks All But Certain in Wisconsin

David Moberg

Feature

How New York Activists Banned Fracking

Anti-fracking forces not only pushed a right-leaning Democratic governor to pass the ban, but proved the conventional wisdom—that a ban would be impossible—wrong.

Eric Weltman

Labor

Wisconsin Union-busting Gov. Scott Walker Says Fighting Union Members Is Like Fighting ISIS

Kevin Solari

Labor

Holyoke Teachers Union President: ‘We Will Not Let Them Take Over Our Schools’

Mekdes Maryam Amare

Feature

8 Lessons American Progressives Can Take From Greece’s Syriza and Spain’s Podemos

We could learn a few things from the way Syriza is standing up to the powers-that-be in European capitalism.

Dan Cantor and Ted Fertik

Feature

When It Comes to Pensions, Private Equity Funds Are Using Some Fuzzy Math

If we don't strengthen oversight over investments like private equity now, we could have a disaster on our hands in the not-so-distant future.

David Sirota