The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

The Recipe For A Successful Protest Movement

It's much more than a sheer numbers game: movements need a combination of mass disruption and sacrifice in order to take off.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler

Feature

The Most Hated Woman on the Internet

Haters--myself included--have pummeled Amanda Palmer so far beyond recognition that it’s disconcerting to hear her actual voice in her new memoir, The Art of Asking.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Viewpoint

U.S. Youth Take Police Violence Charges to the UN Committee Against Torture

A new generation globalizes the struggle.

Salim Muwakkil

Feature

On International Human Rights Day, Consider the U.N.‘s Statements on the American Justice System

We usually think of "human rights abuses" as something that occur abroad. But recent U.N. proceedings have strong words for the U.S.'s domestic and international activities.

Flint Taylor

Feature

Slavoj Žižek: How the United States Rolls

It's lonely being the global policeman.

Slavoj Žižek

Labor

SCOTUS Rules Workers Don’t Need To Be Paid for All Their Time Working

Moshe Z. Marvit

Feature

Do You Want Shrapnel with That Airbag?

Culpable carmakers and captive regulators make a deadly combo.

Terry J. Allen

Comics

The Inconvenience of Racist Police Violence

Matt Bors

Comics

Ham Sandwich

Eric Garcia