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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.
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ICE-Cold Cash: Members of Congress Took More than $1.7 Million from ICE Contractors
Find out if your representatives have taken cash from Palantir, the private prison industry and other companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg and Ethan Corey
Notes on Our Connected Crusades for Liberation
Three poems from Cortney Lamar Charleston's new collection, "It's Important I Remember."
Cortney Lamar Charleston
While the U.S. Doubles Down on Fossil Fuels, Other Countries Are Charting a Path Away From Them
The recent Santa Marta conference in Colombia was the world’s first diplomatic conference expressly dedicated to phasing out fossil fuels.
Basav Sen
A Dream Deferred for the Jackson Faction
Jesse Jackson's politics of inclusion, an ongoing project, was spurred by his ascent to two candidacies for the Democratic presidential ticket.
In These Times Editors
Turning the Page on Corporate Bookselling
Radical booksellers create democratically governed spaces where the public is encouraged to build movements, rather than merely participate in the retail economy.
J. Patrick Patterson
The Grand Old Illusion of ‘Ethical’ Capitalism
Donald Trump’s Big Oil bonanza is an environmental disaster — but the industry’s reaction exposes a larger truth about capitalism itself.
Brad Swanson
"These Are the Mistakes a Dying Empire Makes"
A conversation with professor and economist Richard Wolff on operation "Economic Fury" and the fragility of the petrodollar
Glenn Diesen and Richard D. Wolff
May Day Was a Reminder That We Make the World Run
It wasn’t just a day of protest, boycott or celebration—May Day showed that we, the workers, are all on the same glorious team.
Hamilton Nolan