The Wisconsin Idea

Interview
The Authoritarian State in Miniature
A conversation with author Talia Lavin on Christian Nationalists’ 50-Year Plan to Capture the Country.
Shane Burley
LaborFeature
Against Trump, For the Common Good: What Chicago Teachers Won in Their Latest Contract
The Chicago Teachers Union has long taken on neoliberal Democrats and won. Their latest contract is a victory against the new Trump administration, leaders say.
Kari Lydersen
ClimateRural America
Ahead of Fire and Hurricane Season, FEMA Moves to End a Major Disaster-Preparedness Program
In an internal FEMA memo, the Trump administration announced its plans to dismantle the government’s largest climate adaptation initiative.
Zoya Teirstein and Jake Bittle
"You Are Not Welcome Here:" DHS Plans to Monitor Immigrants' Social Media
Those deemed to have “antisemitic activity” online could be denied green cards and other immigration clearances.
Sharon Zhang
ComicsComics
The World Is Trump's Golf Ball
New comics by Kendra Wells, Mattie Lubchansky, Bianca Xunise and Peter Kuper.
Kendra Wells, Mattie Lubchansky, Bianca Xunise and peter kuper
Culture
The Burning Heart of the World Follows an Armenian Family in Exile
Released on the 50th anniversary of the Lebanese Civil War and the 110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, this heartfelt book weaves humor and love into a wartime coming-of-age story.
Eleanor J. Bader
Politics
She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding.
Diana Greene Foster, who was behind the landmark Turnaway Study, wanted to study the health and economic impacts of the loss of abortion access.
Shefali Luthra, The 19th
ViewpointPolitics
Chris Rufo and the Burger Kings
An extremely online debate reveals fractures in the MAGA coalition and low-status yearnings for a white aristocracy.
Matt McManus
LaborViewpoint
Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.
The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.
Kim Kelly
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