The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Congress Tried To Force Trump to End the Yemen War. Now They’ll Have To Do the Same With Biden.

Activists say it's not enough to trust Biden's promises to end U.S. support for the war: Congress must compel him.

Sarah Lazare

Culture

Grief Belongs in Social Movements. Can We Embrace It?

A Black activist reflects on intergenerational trauma, community, and coming to terms with death in movement building.

Malkia Devich-Cyril

Climate

Biden's Climate Pledges Are Incompatible with His Belligerence Toward China

Bipartisan saber rattling and spiraling Pentagon budgets threaten to undermine global climate action just when we need it most.

Lorah Steichen

Feature

Why Cubans Protested on July 11

Is this the beginning of the end of fear in Cuba?

Samuel Farber

Labor

We Need a Big National Strike Fund

More successful strikes help the entire labor movement. We should pay for them together.

Hamilton Nolan

Wisconsin’s Incarcerated Fear Summer Heat

Seasonal temperatures exacerbated by climate change and inadequate infrastructure threaten incarcerated people statewide.

Arvind Dilawar

Departments

The "Landback" Movement Would Return Stolen Land to Indigenous Stewardship

Part of the larger decolonization movement, landback is critical in dismantling white supremacy and mitigating climate disaster.

In These Times Editors

Viewpoint

An Old Idea for a Guaranteed Income Is Back in Style

A new proposal for a negative income tax could eliminate poverty in the United States.

Max B. Sawicky

Viewpoint

We Need Radical Economic Change—Not Biden's Corporate Capitalism

Stimulus packages are not enough. Only practices of deep democracy and shared ownership can end our cycle of economic disaster.

Stacey Sutton