The Wisconsin Idea
Labor
Building Trades Leader: Any Politician Who Doesn't Back the PRO Act Shouldn't Get Labor's Support
A conversation with Jimmy Williams, the progressive new president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.
Mindy Isser
Texas Is Just the Start: Other Republican States Are Plotting Attacks on Abortion Rights
Republican lawmakers in Florida, Indiana, Mississippi, and other states have expressed interest in turning private citizens into deputized vigilantes to halt women's reproductive freedoms.
Julia Conley
Feature
Imagine If We Had Spent the Last 20 Years Fighting Climate Change Instead of the War on Terror
At the dawn of the new millennium, we directed our national resources in the exact wrong direction. But it's not too late to turn things around.
Sarah Lazare
Labor
Teaching at the Epicenter of the Pandemic, In a District Too Exhausted for Fear
A conversation with with Casey Scully, a former elementary-school teacher and current high-school math interventionist in Charleston, South Carolina.
Maximillian Alvarez
Feature
The Movement to De-Cop the Campus
Students, educators and staff across the University of California system are organizing to abolish campus police.
Emily Rich
ViewpointRural America
GDP: A Countdown to Doom
The numbers we use to measure the economy’s recovery from Covid also measure the rate at which we barrel into ecological catastrophe.
Joseph Bullington
Rural America
Growing food sovereignty on the shores of Lake Superior
On a small Wisconsin island, members of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and volunteers provide fresh food and restore ancestral connection through gardening.
Kip Dooley
ViewpointRural America
The Time Has Come to Demolish Glen Canyon Dam
Amid a worsening drought in the Southwest, the controversial dam on the Colorado River is ceasing to serve its purpose. It’s time to tear it down.
Gary Wockner
Viewpoint
The Power Is Still Out in New Orleans After Hurricane Ida. We Need Public Control of Our Energy Systems.
The damage from Hurricane Ida is the latest reminder that the climate change era requires public ownership of infrastructure.
Thomas M. Hanna
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