The Wisconsin Idea

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

Labor

Mass. Teachers Defeat Corporate Ed Reform Bill Through Rank-and-File Power

Dan Clawson

Labor

At Chattanooga Volkswagen Plant, Workers Finally Win a Different Kind of Union

Will Craft

Labor

Postal Workers Push Back Against Privatization and Post Office Closures

Bruce Vail

Labor

Chicago’s Black Unemployment Rate Near Quadruple That of Whites

Adeshina Emmanuel, The Chicago Reporter