The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Should We Trust Him? The Mixed Results of Obama’s Past Immigrant Relief Measures

Past executive actions for undocumented immigrants under the president's administration haven't always delivered.

Yana Kunichoff

Viewpoint

Football: Nothing Left to Cheer For

How can fans respond to the rash of brutality on and off the field?

Susan J. Douglas

Feature

Journalists Aren’t Covering Local Elections. Our Democracy Is Suffering Because of It.

What if you held an election and nobody showed up to cover it? Americans now know the answer: elections with lots of paid ads but little journalism, context or objective facts.

David Sirota

Feature

Elizabeth Warren Needs to Run for President—Even If She Doesn’t Want To

She's the only one who can save the Democrats from themselves.

Ian Reifowitz

Culture

The Reporter Who Paid a High Price for ‘Contra Crack’

A new film, Kill the Messenger, shows how the CIA, the Washington Post and the LA Times conspired to discredit a journalist, and destroyed a life.

Jim Naureckas

Listen: California Attorney General “Shocked” By Her Own Department’s Arguments Against Parole

George Lavender

Labor

The United Arab Emirates Guestworker System Is Inhumane. So Is Ours.

Rachel Luban

Feature

Loan Servicer Busted for Backdating, But Foreclosure Victims Say Shenanigans Haven’t Stopped

Ocwen Financial feels your pain.

Joel Sucher

InvestigationGoodman Institute

Fracking the Poor

A 5-month investigation reveals that fracking operations in California are disproportionately concentrated in poor communities of color—and may be causing alarming health effects.

Hannah Guzik