The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

A Magazine and Political Movement Intending to Change the World

The words of In These Times founder, James Weinstein, still ring true 50 years later: “No political movement can be healthy unless it has its own press to inform it, educate it and orient it.”

Alex Han

Politics

There’s Never Been a More Fitting Time for Democrats to Stop Funding ICE

The money fueling ICE’s abuses comes directly out of the pockets of working Americans who are already struggling.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Viewpoint

Empire of Extortion

The abduction of Venezuela’s president and the plunder of its oil signal a new and dangerous phase in U.S. foreign policy.

Alberto Toscano

DepartmentsPolitics

I Love You, Madame Librarian

Kurt Vonnegut expresses admiration for one of the last promising places in America for people to feel: libraries and the people who work there.

In These Times Editors

LaborPalestine

The U.S. Workers Who Went on Strike for Gaza

How one UAW local pulled off a mass strike in solidarity with the Gaza protest encampments, and in opposition to the US-Israeli slaughter of Palestinians.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

A Staggering Number of Minnesotans Took to the Streets Friday to Demand ICE Leave. The Next Day, ICE Responded by Killing Another Resident.

Saturday morning marked the third shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis this month. “How many more Americans need to die for this operation to end?” said Mayor Jacob Frey.

Thomas Birmingham and Ari Bloomekatz

LaborViewpoint

"ICE Is Made Up of a Bunch of Cowards"

Artist Margaret Vail Palmquist eviscerates ICE in a series of illustrations over its abduction of a 5-year-old in the Minneapolis area earlier in the week.

Margaret Vail Palmquist

Labor

“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE

Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

Sarah Lazare

LaborInterview

“No Work. No Spending": Minnesota Workers Strike Today to Protest ICE

A critical conversation with Minnesota union leaders about a massive general strike that begins on Friday, January 23.

Maximillian Alvarez