The Wisconsin Idea

A Year in Criminal Justice

George Lavender

Labor

When the Teenager Is the Breadwinner

Yana Kunichoff

Labor

The 9 Most Important Victories for Workers in 2014

Amien Essif

Viewpoint

It’s Not the Koran, It’s Us

The corporate media chorus willfully ignores that U.S. actions, not Islam, fuel jihadism.

Leonard C. Goodman

Labor

California Campus Workers Become First Major Local Union to Endorse BDS Against Israel

Mario Vasquez

Feature

How Ta-Nehisi Coates Made Reparations Mainstream

Coates talks about the debt he owes to black nationalists, and why black Americans are so hungry for data to back up their experiences.

Salim Muwakkil

‘Tis The Season For Clemency

George Lavender

Feature

States Are Redistributing Wealth! Where’s the Republican Outrage?

The Right seems to be just fine with wealth redistribution when governors like Chris Christie take from the poor and give to the rich.

David Sirota

Culture

The 1950s: You Had To Be There

Post-WWII America was more complicated than we remember.

Jane Miller