The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Labor’s Makeover

Live from the AFL-CIO convention: Federation President Richard Trumka has a dream.

David Moberg

Culture

Jonathan Lethem’s New Muse

A failed socialist utopia in Queens stands in for the disarray of American progressivism.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Culture

Hard Times, the Sequel

George Packer on the disappearance of the American Dream.

Catherine Tumber

Comics

How Bombing Syria Might Work Out

Matt Bors

Feature

Orange Is the New Black, Episode 7: The Larry Problem

In which we finally bring ourselves to confront OITNB's least likable character.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

In Failed Extradition Attempt, A European Rebuke Of Solitary Confinement And U.S. ‘Supermax’ Prisons

Matt Stroud

Feature

Is There a Method to the Syrian Madness?

On radical-emancipatory movements and false rationales for war.

Slavoj Žižek

Labor

Carwash Workers and Capitol Hill: Immigration in Limbo

Michelle Chen

Feature

How the Anti-War Movement Won the Hearts and Minds of the Public

A decade of protests paved the way for Americans to say 'no' to Syrian strikes.

Bernardine Dohrn