The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Vampire Princess of Persia

Not your kid sister's vampire flick.

Michael Atkinson

Feature

A Short History of Killer Cops Let Off the Hook

The U.S. has a long history of allowing police to walk free after vicious racist violence.

Flint Taylor

Feature

Mockingjay’s Contradictory Revolution

The latest Hunger Games installment suggests that everything we do—even our resistance—is compromised.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

In Iraq and Beyond, U.S. Foreign Policy is Based On Complete Fallacies

How can we ever hope for a sane foreign policy in the Middle East when America's bedrock assumptions about the region are completely wrong?

Andrew J. Bacevich

Feature

The Dismantling of Medicaid

Once considered one of the crowning achievements of The Great Society, Medicaid is now being steadily chipped away—and patients are suffering because of it.

Michael Collins

Culture

Let Old Labor Die

With union membership declining, Tom Geoghegan has a radical prescription for labor.

Jeremy Gantz

Culture

On the Death of a Spouse

Karl has died.

Jane Miller

Feature

Dozens of Activists Arrested in Battle Against a Fracking “Gateway Drug” in New York

Residents of New York's Finger Lakes argue that gas projects would spell ecological and economic disaster for the region.

Molly Bennet

Locked Down, Locked Out: Exclusive Excerpt from Maya Schenwar’s New Book

Maya Schenwar