The Wisconsin Idea

Comics

Scalia Is Pretty Much Awful

Matt Bors

Feature

Homeland, Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Way Down in the Hole (Again)

Brody has bad luck with foreign countries and holes.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Labor

Sailors Unions Defend Greenpeace’s ‘Arctic 30’: Peaceful Protests and Piracy Are ‘Very Different’

Bruce Vail

Comics

A Debt-Free America

Matt Bors

Controversy over U.S. lethal injections sparks interest in France’s last execution—in 1977

Matt Stroud

Culture

The Seamus Heaney I Knew

In memory of a Nobelist and a dear friend.

Jane Miller

Feature

‘FDR Democrat’ Vies for Congressional Seat

In a five-way Democratic race in Massachusetts, Carl Sciortino is jockeying for leftmost.

Cole Stangler

Labor

Migrant Women Bring Voices to Capital

Michelle Chen

Feature

Unintended Conquerors

Yossi Klein Halevi's new book Like Dreamers speaks with rare clarity on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Louis Nayman