The Wisconsin Idea
The Wisconsin Idea is an independent reporting project of People’s Action Institute, Citizen Action of Wisconsin and In These Times. The Wisconsin Idea takes a closer look at the state of Wisconsin, featuring in-depth reporting on the issues facing the state’s rural communities.
Latest Stories
The Adventures of Bloodless Quant
Alex Hood
Trump Is Sleeping Through His War on Iran
A new comic by Jack Ohman
Jack Ohman
ICE Is Conducting a Reign of Terror
ICE’s indiscriminate violence conveys that nonwhite immigrants, lawful or otherwise, have no place in Trump’s America.
Mitchell Zimmerman
What Amazon Organizers Can Learn From the Fight for 15
Organizers at Amazon can take lessons from the Fight for 15’s success at building pressure through a broad public campaign—and from its failure to really build an organization of, by, and for workers.
Rand Wilson and Peter Olney
The Big Idea: Publicly Funded Art
Art is how we make sense of ourselves. But the U.S. government, unlike many other countries, is investing in it less and less.
J. Patrick Patterson
Julio Foolio, Unions and “Sweat Equity”
How incarceration and labor are bound together.
Calvin John Smiley
The Possibilities of Grief as a Rupture
Abolition Judaism and rethinking the holiday of Tisha B’Av
Andrue Kahn and Dania Rajendra
Working People Are Being Fleeced to Pay for a Bloated Military Budget
While costs rise for everything, SNAP recipients who lost benefits—and the farmers who fed them—are being asked to shell out $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon.
Danaka Katovich