The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Coders Are Becoming the Industrial Workers of the 21st Century. Will They Organize?

Peter Downs

Labor

Thousands of New York City Teachers Protest Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Free Market Education Reforms

Kevin Solari

Viewpoint

Obama’s Drone Policy Crashes and Burns

Yemen, the poster child for drone-based foreign policy, has collapsed on itself.

Leonard C. Goodman

Rural America

The Legacy of Slavery: What Inequality and Industrial Hog Operations Have in Common

Laura Orlando

Feature

Whither Žižek?: On Zionism and Jews

Slavoj Zizek’s line of thought conveniently plays into the hands of Israel's hard right, like newly reelected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli expansionists.

Louis Nayman

Labor

Unions Can’t Beat Right to Work Just By Calling It ‘Unfair’—They Must Fight for Everyone

Rand Wilson

Feature

Under ACLU-Drafted Bill, Illinois Police Must Forget Where You’ve Been

A new Illinois State Senate bill could end the mass collection and indefinite storage of license plate tracking data by police.

Joel Handley

Feature

Why Jesus “Chuy” Garcia Should Look to Anton Cermak’s Chicago Mayoral Campaign for Inspiration

The parallels between Cermak and Garcia—and Chicago's political moment in the 1930s and now—are striking.

Peter Cole

Comics

The New Insane Way McDonald’s Is Mistreating its Workers

Matt Bors