The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

States Now Hold the Key to Making Medicare for All a Reality

With action stalled at the national level, local elected officials and movement organizers have joined forces to enact single-payer healthcare.

Michael Lighty

Feature

Top Weapons Companies Boast Ukraine-Russia Tensions Are a Boon for Business

In calls with investors, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin boasted that the worsening conflict is helping profits.

Sarah Lazare

Viewpoint

Financial Superbubble Meets Political Dystopia

The next major recession will be the final ingredient in America's poisonous post-Trump evolution.

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

What's Next for the Defund Movement?

Five police abolitionists from around the country—some of them newly elected to city councils—talk about lessons from 2021 and plans for 2022.

Kandace Montgomery, Robin Wonsley Worlobah, Andrew R. Hairston, Willie Burnley Jr. and Makia Green

Labor

Indigenous Farmworkers Can Show How to Heal Our Burning Planet

Grape harvesters share traditional ecological knowledge to right our relationship with the land—and each other.

Brooke Anderson

Rural America

Death of a Sales Barn: How Corporations Took Over Our Food System

A new report explains how a handful of agribusiness firms came to dominate U.S. agriculture, how they’re ruining rural America, and how we can stop them.

Zoe Pharo

Viewpoint

Disrupt or Anchor the Democratic Party? Why Not Both?

Political scientists Frances Fox Piven and Daniel Schlozman offer key perspectives on whether movements should put pressure on political parties from the outside, or focus on gaining insider power themselves.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler

Viewpoint

Where Is the 100,000-Strong Public Health Corps Biden Promised Us?

The government needs to bring vaccines and information to the people through an ambitious public jobs program, just like Biden said he would.

Abdullah Shihipar

Feature

Black Farmers Sow the Seeds for the Future

A century after the height of Black farming, young land stewards pick up the plow.

Randi Love