The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

We Might Get Some Great Tax Policies for Very Dumb Reasons

And that's okay.

Hamilton Nolan

Joe Manchin Is the One with an "Entitlement Mentality"

By refusing to support a massively popular social spending plan, Manchin is showing just how out of step he is with the American public and his own voters—like a modern day Marie Antoinette.

Celine-Marie Pascale

For the $10 Billion It Gave Shareholders, John Deere Could Have Given Each Worker $142,000

Workers made a fortune for shareholders over the last six-year contract. They should demand that they get paid their true worth before shareholders get a penny.

Colleen Boyle

Wisconsin Schools Called Police on Students at Twice the National Rate

School officials refer thousands of children to the police each year. In Wisconsin, children with disabilities or who are Black, Latino or Native bear the brunt of it.

Angelica Euseary, Clare Amari and Robert Chappell

Labor

The Rank-and-File Fight for Direct Democracy at UAW

A conversation with Justin Mayhugh, a worker at General Motors in Kansas City, about a referendum on whether UAW members can directly elect top union officers.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Happy Striketober. Let's Restore the Legal Right to Strike.

Now's the perfect time to fight for the right to return to a job once a strike is over.

Shaun Richman

Dispatch

The $250 Difference: A Lifeline for Working Families May Disappear this December

Most U.S. welfare programs are either targeted or means-tested — the Child Tax Credit breaks this mold.

Bryce Covert

Viewpoint

"Support Afghan Women" Must Be More Than a Platitude

When the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, it froze billions of dollars in Afghan assets, grinding many of the country’s most essential operations to a halt and spreading misery. The U.S. government must release those funds.

Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold

Labor

She's a 64-Year-Old Taxi Driver Drowning in Medallion Debt—And She's Fighting Back

Dorothy LeConte is part of a movement of taxi drivers demanding that the city of New York relieve their financial anguish.

Luis Feliz Leon