The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

Tending Dixie’s Racial Wounds

Does a story-sharing program offer a chance at Southern reconciliation?

Theo Anderson

Labor

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Takes Aim at Wendy’s

Geoff Gilbert

Labor

In Wisconsin’s Battle Against Right to Work, Labor Goes Through the Motions

David Goodner

Feature

Slavoj Žižek: Whither Zionism?

In order to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we should not dwell in ancient past—we should forget it.

Slavoj Žižek

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