The Wisconsin Idea

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

Election 2024

Trump’s First Term Was Bad for Trans People. His Next Term Promises to Be Worse.

Here are six ways a second Trump administration may try to target trans people. We must organize our resistance now.

Lewis Raven Wallace

ViewpointElection 2024

Trump's Army of Social Vigilantes Are Coming for Payback

For four years, disciples of MAGA have been waiting for this moment, stewing on the need for social and political retribution. The wait is over—and we need to be ready.

Maximillian Alvarez

DispatchCulture

Menopause in a Prison Cell

More women than ever are experiencing menopause behind bars—and facing barriers to care.

Kwaneta Harris

ViewpointElection 2024

The Rape Culture Election

Across the Right, one refrain resounds: “Your body, my choice.”

Talia Lavin

ViewpointElection 2024

How Biden, Harris and the Democrats Abandoned the Working Class

Working-class voters didn’t unite behind a Democratic Party that failed to address economic pain—and Trump exploited those grievances to win back the presidency.

Jeff Schuhrke

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

The Election Is Over and the Bombs Are Still Dropping. We Have to Stop Them.

We must recommit to the fight for an arms embargo.

Saqib Bhatti

ViewpointElection 2024

Democratic Elites Blame Everyone But Themselves for Historic Collapse

On the blame list: transgender people, “economic headwinds,” ontologically racist voters—anyone but the powerful people tasked with defeating Trump.

Adam Johnson

LaborViewpointElection 2024

Labor Now Needs to Be an Anti-Fascist Movement

MAGA forces have begun what they believe to be their final offensive against everything on the Left. One way to fight back is for organized labor to become a conscious anti-fascist movement

Bill Fletcher, Jr.