The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Reports from Inside First Look Media Suggest That Maybe Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Manage Journalists

Feverish speculation surrounds First Look's recent troubles. But perhaps the most obvious culprit is its reliance on truckloads of tech money.

Chris Lehmann

Labor

Under New Progressive Leadership, Teachers Union Fights “Teacher Jail”

Samantha Winslow

Comics

How to Avoid Being Shot by Police

Matt Bors

Labor

As New York City Considers Criminal Justice Reforms, Police Unions Stand in the Way

Ari Paul

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