The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

A Landmark Win for Domestic Workers Lurks in the Reconciliation Bill

$190 billion for home care has been folded into reconciliation—toward measures aimed at improving pay and job security for domestic workers.

Maurizio Guerrero and Sarah Lazare

LaborDispatch

Alabama Amazon Workers May Get Another Crack at a Union

The warehouse workers' fight enters its second round, just when everyone thought it was finished.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

What the Labor Movement Lost With the Passing of Richard Trumka and Stanley Aronowitz

Remembering the legacies of two longtime advocates for the working-class.

Leon Fink

Labor

How Rural Wisconsin Communities Are Fighting Back Against Big Ag's "Hog Factories"

Why residents are taking on industrial meat production.

Maximillian Alvarez

Feature

Democratic Socialists of America Make a Strategy for the Biden Era

Delegates chart a socialist future at DSA's 2021 virtual convention.

Roger Kerson

Viewpoint

Afghanistan and Beyond: End U.S. War-Making Everywhere

We need a reinvigorated anti-war movement.

Azadeh Shahshahani

Communities Near Fort McCoy Work to Welcome Afghan refugees

Residents of the communities surrounding Fort McCoy have been working to welcome the thousands of Afghan refugees who just moved next door.

Henry Redman

Labor

"We Are Emptying Out Their Shelves": Nabisco Workers’ 5-Week Strike Won by Shutting Down Business as Usual

A beaten-down workforce took on a powerful company—and won.

Stephen Franklin

Viewpoint

Playing Chicken With Nihilists

How progressives should deal with the incredible Democratic reconciliation debacle.

Hamilton Nolan