The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

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

Dispatch

The Adoption-Industrial Complex

Is U.S. domestic adoption about children or profit?

Jessica Stites

Progressive Chicagoans Take Budget Hearings into Their Own Hands—No Emanuel Necessary

Matthew Blake

Labor

OSHA Weaknesses Force Workers to Choose: Report Safety Violations, or Keep Their Jobs?

Mike Elk

5th Circuit Shutters up to a Third of Texas Abortion Clinics

Lindsay Beyerstein

Feature

The Real Problem with Obamacare

Where the defeat of single-payer healthcare has gotten us.

David Sirota

Labor

The National Labor Relations Board Is Back at Full Throttle

Bruce Vail

Labor

A Halloween Nightmare in Juárez

Michelle Chen