The Wisconsin Idea

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Is Local TV Going Down the Tubes?

An FCC loophole allows media conglomerates to corner smaller broadcast markets.

Cole Stangler

Comics

The Politics of Food Stamps

Matt Bors

Feature

It’s Not Safe Out There

Weak laws and an understaffed OSHA leave workers vulnerable and voiceless

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Viewpoint

Flipping the House in 2014

Next year's congressional elections call for a more unified, progressive and revitalized Democratic Party.

Carl Davidson

Labor

What To Expect When You’re Electing: A New York City Ballot Roundup (Updated)

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Picturing an End to New York City’s Homelessness Crisis

More than 50,000 New Yorkers are homeless. Here's what the new mayor could do to help.

Molly Knefel

Viewpoint

President Obama: Incompetent or Liar?

Without Snowden leaks, the president wouldn’t even know that the NSA spies on world leaders.

Steven Hill

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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 6: Journey to the Center of Saul’s Man-Pain

Homeland puts Saul’s midlife crisis over the welfare (and sanity) of its female characters.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

A decent proposal: to reduce recidivism, more prisons should allow conjugal visits

Matt Stroud