The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Experts Needed; Knowledge Optional

How the Beltway media embraced a fake Syria expert.

Chris Lehmann

Labor

How Young Is Too Young for Multiple-Choice Tests? (A) 5 (B) Never

Sarah Jaffe

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