The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Taking on ‘Capital’ Without Marx

What Thomas Piketty misses in his critique of capitalism.

David Harvey

Portland Divests $9 Million from Walmart

Sarah Berlin

Abu Dhabi Workers Receive Apology From NYU

Mary Lorenzo

Feature

Ode To America’s Freshwater People

On Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg, Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and other Midwesterners.

Kurt Vonnegut

Labor

The New ‘Harvest of Shame’: Children Who Pick Tobacco

Joe Conason, AlterNet

Feature

Mad Men: Season 7, Episode 6: Peggy and Don, Reunited (And It Feels So Good)

This was the kind of episode Mad Men fans live for.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

Supermarket Checker: ‘If You Want Personality, Then You Come to My Line’

Jeff Schuhrke

Culture

Death of a Hacktivist

A new documentary on Aaron Swartz.

Patricia Aufderheide

Feature

Oligarchy Enshrined

Why the Supreme Court’s McCutcheon ruling is good news for the super-rich and bad news for progressive Democrats.

Cole Stangler