The Wisconsin Idea

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

The Price of Prison Time: States Pay-Out for Post-Conviction Exonerations

George Lavender

Comics

Iraq War 2.0

Jeff Danziger

Labor

Jazz Musician: ‘I See the Gap Between the Haves and Have-Nots’

Jeremy Gantz

Dispatch

Judgment Day for Payday Lenders

Religious groups in the South fight a predatory practice.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Why Brazil’s World Cup Protesters Are So Furious

Four devastating effects of La Copa that will be felt long after the games.

Dave Zirin

Labor

‘$10.10 is Not Enough,’ Federal Contract Workers Tell Obama

Bruce Vail