The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Silk Road Rage

Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin is a grotesque portrayal of modern-day China's struggle with corruption.

Michael Atkinson

Labor

Minimum-Wage Hike Won’t Appease Bangladeshi Workers

Michelle Chen

Labor

16-Hour Shifts, But Not a Real Worker?

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Social Democracy in the South

Bernie Sanders talks about economic justice—and the possibility of a presidential run—on a three-day road trip.

Cole Stangler

Comics

Hooray?

Jeff Danziger

Feature

No More City on a Hill

San Francisco isn't some carefree utopia for queer people, says trans activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

Yasmin Nair

Discovering a Black Man Having a Heart Attack on the Sidewalk

Mike Elk

Dispatch

Schoolyard Syndicalists

From the Chicago public school closings, some students emerge radicalized.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Shooting America in the Foot

Republicans wounded the country--and their party--with their failed gambit to defund the Affordable Care Act.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President