The Wisconsin Idea

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

Sixty Years After Brown v Board of Education, Racism Persists in Prison System says Attorney General

George Lavender

Labor

Turkey Erupts Over Mining Tragedy; Many Blame Privatization

Sisi Tang

Massachusetts Prisoners Take Sheriffs To Court Over “Degrading” Strip-Searches

George Lavender