The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

"Five Times Daily, They Count Us As Cattle"

Two poems on incarceration.

PHILLIP VANCE SMITH, II

Election 2024

Trump's Planned Immigrant Purge Sends Stagnant Private Prison Stocks Soaring

"The GEO Group was built for this unique moment ... and the opportunity that it will bring," said the firm's chair.

Brett Wilkins

ViewpointElection 2024

What Lesson Should the Dems Take From the 2024 Election? Return to the Working Class

The party should use this inflection point to shift ground—from being the party of well-off college graduates, big corporations, and vacuous “centrism”—to an anti-establishment party ready to shake up the system on behalf of the vast majority of Americans.

Robert Reich

Election 2024

Trump 2.0 Poses an Even Bigger Threat to Migrants. Here’s How We Fight Back.

Let’s take concrete action to protect the millions of US residents facing the threat of Trump’s deportation crosshairs.

Silky Shah

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