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.
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Everybody Hates Data Centers
Anarchists, union activists, Indigenous organizers, and disgruntled Trumpists find themselves side by side in the fight.
Paul Messersmith-Glavin
The NYU Strike Showed How to Reverse the Downward Spiral in Higher Ed
By withholding their labor earlier this year, non-tenured faculty at New York University won major gains—and helped create better learning conditions for their students.
Peter Cole
The Explosive Growth of Prediction Markets Is a Symptom of a Deeply Sick Economy
Silicon Valley fuels them. Wall Street loves them. Prediction markets are everywhere, and ordinary people will pay the price.
Hadas Thier
“Shaping Up To Be a Clean Sweep": Bernie Sanders-Endorsed Candidates Prevail in Primaries
Sanders has said his endorsements are about “building a movement for the future” capable of not just taking on the GOP, but also the Democratic Party establishment.
Brad Reed
Sudanese Filmmakers Forge New Paths
Young women forced from their homes in the ongoing war are creating a new form of resistance cinema.
Mohammed Ahmed Wad Al Sak
If We Can Intifada the Poems...
Two poems from When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America.
George Abraham
How Resisting Trumpism Could Revive the U.S. Labor Movement
The array of attacks on democracy and workers’ rights presents an opportunity to expand labor’s power—if unions are willing to seize it.
Stephen Lerner and Joseph A. McCartin
No New Beds
How one coalition is challenging the construction of mega-jails in Georgia.
Micah Herskind, Priscilla Grim and October Krausch