The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Chicago Aldermen Want a $15 Minimum Wage in Their City, Too

Ethan Corey

Feature

Memo to ‘Game of Thrones’: Abusers Aren’t Heroes

In its season finale, the show once again asks us to sympathize with a male perpetrator of violence rather than his female victim.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Comics

Iraq: Mission Accomplished-er!

Matt Bors

Feature

Making Sense of Obama’s Clean Power Plan

Is the EPA's proposal to reduce carbon emissions really a game-changer?

Cole Stangler

Feature

How We Can Save American Democracy

Amending the Constitution may sound audacious, but it's not impossible.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

‘No Trauma, No-Bama,’ Activists Tell University of Chicago

Carlos Ballesteros

Feature

Eugenics Behind Bars

Nearly four decades after the practice was outlawed, people in California women's prisons have still been sterilized without their consent.

Loretta Ross

President Obama Takes Huge Step for LGBT Rights

Ethan Corey

Feature

Nigerian Philosopher Calls for Culture Shift

The debate among sub-Saharan intellectuals about modernity and traditionalism.

G. Pascal Zachary