The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

EMA: This is What Anti-Capitalist Virtual-Reality Art Looks Like

A performance at PS1 used the Oculus Rift VR headset to explore being a stranded human subjectivity in a commodified world.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Comics

Meet Our Future Robot Overlords

Matt Bors

Labor

UConn Graduate Students Win Union Through Rank-and-File Action

Puya Gerami

Labor

Why the New Law Combating Wage Theft in Chicago’s Cook County is a Big Deal

Kevin Solari

Labor

Striking Oil Workers Are Fighting for Safe Communities, Not Just Better Conditions for Themselves

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Culture

Despite a Rosy Lens, Timbuktu Has Something to Teach Us About Resistance to Oppression

Abderrahmane Sissako’s Oscar-nominated film may be improbably beautiful and relatively apolitical, but it's worth seeing.

Michael Atkinson

Pennsylvania Puts Death Penalty on Hold

George Lavender

Labor

Illinois Billionaire Gov. Bruce Rauner’s Anti-Union Plan Hits a Roadblock

David Moberg

Labor

At Last: New Labor Board Ruling Could Finally Allow Professors at Private Universities to Unionize

Alexandra Bradbury