The Wisconsin Idea

Consolidation Threatens to Rip ‘Service’ Out of Postal Service

Unlike other public services that are perennially on the chopping block, USPS already gets zero tax dollars. Yet a string of right-wing politicians, Donald Trump among them, have called for privatizing it.

Alexandra Bradbury

Election 2024

Trump Is Planning a Presidency of, by, and for the Rich

Now that the “pro-worker” GOP led by Donald Trump holds the reins of government, what does it plan to do? A program of handouts for big business and austerity for the rest of us.

Branko Marcetic

LaborPodcast

A Microsoft AI Data Center Saps Water From A Small Mexican Town

After decades fighting against water bottling and beer companies, rural communities in Mexico are now also having to compete against Big Tech for water.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

After Cornell Cracked Down on Pro-Palestinian Activism, its Graduate Student Union Fought Back

Members of Cornell's Graduate Student Union stand in solidarity with Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. candidate and student protestor who was suspended after pressuring the University to divest from Israel.

Maximillian Alvarez

Culture

"Five Times Daily, They Count Us As Cattle"

Two poems on incarceration.

PHILLIP VANCE SMITH, II

Election 2024

Trump's Planned Immigrant Purge Sends Stagnant Private Prison Stocks Soaring

"The GEO Group was built for this unique moment ... and the opportunity that it will bring," said the firm's chair.

Brett Wilkins

ViewpointElection 2024

What Lesson Should the Dems Take From the 2024 Election? Return to the Working Class

The party should use this inflection point to shift ground—from being the party of well-off college graduates, big corporations, and vacuous “centrism”—to an anti-establishment party ready to shake up the system on behalf of the vast majority of Americans.

Robert Reich

Election 2024

Trump 2.0 Poses an Even Bigger Threat to Migrants. Here’s How We Fight Back.

Let’s take concrete action to protect the millions of US residents facing the threat of Trump’s deportation crosshairs.

Silky Shah

Election 2024

7 States Just Enshrined Abortion Rights, as Possibility of a Federal Ban Looms

Many voters backed ballot measures to protect abortion, even as they elected a president who attacks abortion rights.

Lauren Rankin