The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

America’s Tween Soldiers

Middle schoolers: Uncle Sam wants you

Seth Kershner

Feature

BREAKING: In Chicago, Reports of Voters Receiving Ballots Already Marked for Emanuel

After a Facebook post suggested voting irregularities blew up, similar reports are emerging.

Rick Perlstein

Labor

Yes, Rahm Has Brought Businesses To Chicago—But Their Labor Records Aren’t Pretty

Yana Kunichoff

Feature

Is Chicago Finally Tired of Rahm Emanuel?

Emanuel might conceivably lose—a previously unthinkable notion—in his bid for a second term of Chicago's mayor.

John R. MacArthur

Dispatch

Harvard Feels the Heat on Fossil-Fuel Divestment

It's not Al Gore's movement anymore. Student activists are bringing a new militancy to the fight against climate change.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

Bernie Sanders Endorses Chuy Garcia, Calls Chicago Election a ‘Political Revolution’

Kari Lydersen

Labor

The New Union Plan to Protect Immigrant Members from Deportation

Julia Kann

Labor

Fight for Fifteen on Campus: Northeastern Students to Vote for $15 Wage for All University Employees

Keely Mullen

Feature

Darth Rahm vs. The Chuy Rebellion

Jesús "Chuy" Garcia's meteoric rise could land him the mayorship if only he can channel the force—record voter turnout among Chicago's disenfranchised.

Ethan Michaeli