The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

When the Plant Closed, These Workers Were Left Behind

The shuttering of the Mylan pharmaceutical plant in Morgantown, West Virginia left more than 1,400 people out of work.

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

Donald Trump Is Personally Responsible for Hundreds of Thousands of COVID Deaths

An honest look at what a single lunatic has caused.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

"One Day Longer": A Miners' Strike Fed By Solidarity

Meet the coal miners who have been on strike for more than five months.

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

We Can’t Let the Generals Who Lied About the Afghanistan War Define Its Legacy

The U.S. architects of the ruinous war are getting the last word on its “lessons.”

Sarah Lazare

Dispatch

Under Biden, Migrants Continue Fighting for the Right to Return to the U.S.

As family separations continue under the Biden administration, unjustly deported migrants are fighting to be reunited with their families.

Paco Alvarez

Labor

The Indy Journalists Who Covered a Massive Coal Miner Strike That Corporate Media Ignored

A conversation with the grassroots journalists who have consistently covered the strike.

Maximillian Alvarez

By Taxing the Pandemic Profits of Billionaires, We Could Vaccinate Everyone on Earth

A one-time, 99 percent tax on the profits made by the super rich during the Covid crisis could fund vaccines for the globe and help millions of struggling workers.

Jake Johnson

Rural America

Tribal Court Case Against Line 3 Pipeline Is First to Invoke “Rights of Nature”

The suit by the White Earth Band of Ojibwe says Enbridge's pipeline would violate the rights of wild rice, which the tribe enshrined in law in 2018.

Alex Brown

Feature

"We Have To Change the Rules": What AIDS Activists Can Teach Us About the Covid Pandemic

A conversation with current and former ACT UP activists.

Ria Modak