The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Big Tobacco Is Funding Opposition to Global Covid Vaccine Access

Tobacco companies are bankrolling a group that is working to defeat an intellectual property waiver. And the companies have a direct interest in doing so.

Sarah Lazare

Departments

Community Care Over Self-Care

Unlike community care, self-care consumption rituals are unequally accessible and rarely prevent burnout

In These Times Editors

Feature

What If America Had Six Political Parties?

Understanding the warring factions within the Democratic and Republican Party coalitions is critical for progressives who want to build power.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler

Labor

How Unions Are Fighting to Protect Abortion Rights

From collective bargaining to creative use of release time, unions can defend the reproductive freedom of their members. Here's how some are doing it.

C.M. Lewis

Viewpoint

In the Wake of Uvalde, a Teacher's Plea for Police-Free Schools

My students are safer in classrooms without cops. The latest mass school shooting only makes that clearer.

Nataliya Braginsky

Feature

Cancer Is an Environmental Problem

Why federal funding for cancer research must examine its human-made causes.

Anita Carraher

DispatchRural America

Trailer Park Residents Take on Venture Capitalists—and Win

As gentrification sweeps the West, investors are buying up mobile home parks. Residents of this Colorado park got together and bought it themselves.

Joseph Bullington

Labor

Intelligentsia Coffee Workers Join Starbucks and Colectivo in Unionizing

The cafe organizing wave continues to grow as workers at all Intelligentsia stores in Chicago file for a union election.

Jeff Schuhrke

Viewpoint

I Went on Strike to Cancel My Student Debt and Won. Every Debtor Deserves the Same.

Former students of Corinthian Colleges just won the largest student debt cancelation in Education Department history. Now it’s time for Biden to cancel debt for everyone.

Ann Bowers