The Wisconsin Idea

InterviewCulture

Jorts The Cat Wants You To Fight Back

We sat down with the labor movement’s favorite feline to talk about intersectional power, using Twitter for organizing and how his co-workers keep him from falling into the trash.

A. Gopalan

Viewpoint

Immigration Policy Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

For 20 years, the Department of Homeland Security has made life a nightmare for millions—but Dreamers like me have seen that there’s another way.

Alliyah Lusuegro

Labor

There Is Power in a Pantry

Meet the women who nourished the longest strike in Alabama’s history.

Kim Kelly

Viewpoint

Dark Money Conservatives Have Their Eye on Wisconsin’s Top Court. We Can Stop Them.

Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes on why the upcoming Wisconsin State Supreme Court election is one of the most important elections of his life—and why we should all take notice.

Mandela Barnes

Interview

“The People of Chicago Run the City”: Brandon Johnson on His Progressive Vision

We spoke with Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson about public safety, the housing crisis and building a movement against the neoliberal status quo.

Maximillian Alvarez

ViewpointClimate

Biden Betrays Youth With Willow Project—and Breaks His Own Promise

We need a youth movement more powerful than the fossil fuel industry. Why Sunrise Movement organizers are fighting to end the fossil fuel era.

Dejah Powell

Departments

Calling Cop City Activists "Terrorists" Is An Old Government Trick

Several Cop City activists have been arrested and charged with domestic terrorism—something that has long been a legal and rhetorical weapon of state power.

Eric Laursen

ViewpointRural America

East Palestine: “We Basically Nuked a Town with Chemicals So We Could Get a Railroad Open”

Companies should never again be allowed to do what Norfolk Southern did to this Ohio community.

Tish O'Dell and Chad Nicholson

LaborViewpoint

Make One Big Higher Ed Union

Campus workers are organizing more than anyone else. It's time for them to unify.

Hamilton Nolan