The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

For Once, Workers Win Over Walmart

Walmart has signed onto a contract that guarantees Floridian tomato pickers fair treatment.

Alex Wolff

Labor

Minimum Wage Raised in D.C. and Surrounding Counties

Katie Ashmore and Monica Kamen

New York’s Curbs on Solitary Confinement Could Signal National Sea Change

Alex Wolff

U.S. Failing to Protect Temp Workers

Sarah Berlin

Ugandan President Defies West, Signs Anti-Gay Bill

Danayit Musse

Feature

China’s Green Movement

Environmentalists cut through the smog of state repression.

Michelle Chen

Feature

Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 8: Dear Abbey, What’s to Become Of Us?

One writer's advice for Downton's plot-twist-beset heroes and heroines.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

Anti-Fracking Fight Heats Up in Maryland

Baltimore's march against the proposed Cove Point project was the largest environmental protest in the city's history.

Bruce Vail

Labor

The U.S. Military’s Assault on Overseas Labor Rights

Michelle Chen