The Wisconsin Idea

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

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