The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

The Solidarity Economy Movement Is Devising a World Beyond Capitalism

Artists and activists are building economic alternatives centered on principles of cooperation, participatory democracy and sustainability.

Aric Sleeper

Feature

The Case for Child Welfare Abolition

For decades, reformers have tried to fix our broken child protective services system. Is abolishing it an idea whose time has come?

Roxanna Asgarian

CultureIsrael & Palestine

Art Against Occupation

Malak Mattar's London show examines the U.K.' s role in Palestinian colonization.

Matt A. Hanson

Viewpoint

Movements Got Brandon Johnson Elected. How Do We Organize From Here?

A run of progressive victories proves that social movements have transformed Chicago, but the migrant housing crisis shows that contradictions and challenges persist.

Asha Ransby-Sporn

LaborInterviewPodcast

The UAW Fight is an Exercise in Class Struggle Unionism

UAW President Shawn Fain has said that “corporate greed” is the enemy, and autoworkers are fighting back.

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

Labor

UAW Autoworkers Strike Grows Larger, Stellantis Has Been Spared in This Round

The UAW strike that started Sept. 15 has now increased to 25,000 workers striking against the Big Three automakers. According to UAW President Shawn Fain, while negotiations continue with all of the Big Three, Stellantis has made "significant progress" on some issues.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborInterviewPodcast

A Government Shutdown Would Shutter the NLRB. That’s Bad News for Striking Workers.

A government shutdown would place NLRB workers on furlough, leaving striking workers without a crucial ally in their fight.

Maximillian Alvarez

A crowd of striking workers hold up UAW signs and fists, standing in front of two trucks that say Teamsters.

Labor

They Sacrificed to Survive Bankruptcy. They Worked Through A Pandemic. Now, Autoworkers Have Had Enough.

“I want to see them return what they promised to the workers that saved the company,” says a striking Stellantis worker in Minnesota.

Amie Stager

Departments

Conservatives Can't Stop Waging War on Schools

Fifteen years ago, Kate Sheppard reported on the propaganda within the most-used government textbook in America. Now, right-wing fearmongering has once again reared its head in Florida schools.

In These Times Editors