The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Clever Girls

'Men or books?' These could be mutually exclusive choices for young women in 1950s Europe, as two new novels show.

Jane Miller

Feature

Nuclear Weapons Won’t Keep Us Safe

The U.S. will spend an estimated $1 trillion on its nuclear arsenal in the next 30 years. And for what cause?

Noam Chomsky

Comics

Fred Phelps Meets God

Matt Bors

Feature

How a Shadowy Hollywood Conservative Group Gamed the IRS System

Yet the IRS doesn't seem to care all that much.

Adam Parfrey, AlterNet

Feature

Game of Homes

The private-equity firm Blackstone could be your next landlord.

Rebecca Burns, Michael Donley & Carmilla Manzanet

Feature

Kicked Out of Our Home, Courtesy of Blackstone

How an eviction, two arrests and one lost turtle led us to housing activism.

Michael Donley and Carmilla Manzanet

By Ridiculing Redskins, Colbert Made Racism ‘Truthy’

Lindsay Beyerstein

Labor

Is Perelman Jewish Day School the Hobby Lobby of Union-Busting?

Bruce Vail

Feature

By Making Fun of Gwyneth, Are We Really Dismantling Privilege?

The reactions to Kim Kardashian and Gwyneth Paltrow show that no matter what, women can't win.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle