The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Mental Health Activists Say Rahm Emanuel Exploded at Them: “You’re going to respect me!”

The incident came almost three years to the day that another activist died after her mental health clinic was closed by Mayor Emanuel.

Yana Kunichoff

Labor

How Chicago’s Grassroots Movements Defeated Rahm Emanuel at the Polls

Amisha Patel

Culture

The Dude Abides

Kent Russell seeks to lay claim to the raw, serious stuff of the American male past.

Chris Lehmann

Video

Michelle Alexander On How Ferguson Shows The Truth About Our Racist Criminal Justice System

Jessica Stites

Labor

SEIU Local 73 Staffer On Mayoral Neutrality: We Have a “Good Working Relationship” with Rahm Emanuel

Micah Uetricht

Comics

Rahm’s New Image: Mr. Warmth

Fred Klonsky

Feature

Rahm Emanuel’s New Campaign Ad Shows a Mayor Who’s Terrified He’s About to Lose

His reelection bid was supposed to be a cakewalk, but Rahm is clearly starting to get nervous.

Micah Uetricht

Labor

When These GOP Governors Run for President, Remember Their Contempt for Workers

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Feature

Why Chuy Garcia Needs To Condemn Rahm Emanuel’s Secret Police Interrogation Site (Updated)

By any other name, it still smells like torture.

Flint Taylor