The Wisconsin Idea

Inside the Covid-Induced Collapse of American Higher Education

SUNY Albany associate professor Aaron Major takes stock of the academic labor movement and its post-pandemic future.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

McGraw Hill Rejects Calls to Stop Charging Its Freelancers a Fee in Order to Get Paid

Labor advocates say the practice is an "outrage," and fear that it will spread.

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

What's Really Behind the Opposition to a $15 Minimum Wage

Fifty-seven senators from both parties are determined to preserve an economic system that rewards the rich and punishes the poor.

Joel Bleifuss

Departments

Will Biden Make Good on Obama's Promise to Close Guantánamo?

Twelve years ago, one of our writers outlined what needs to happen to finally shut down Gitmo.

In These Times Editors

Rural America

How a Rural Colorado Community Self-Organized a Successful Vaccination Effort

Immigrant community groups, forced to organize by the constant threat of ICE, have played a central role as vaccine information networks.

Dave Marston

Labor

Citing Unfair Labor Practices, 1,300 Steelworkers Strike in Five States

United Steelworkers members claim Allegheny Technologies Incorporated is refusing to provide essential bargaining information.

C.M. Lewis

FeatureInvestigation

Biden's Treatment of Asylum-Seekers Looks a Lot Like Trump's

Migrants are being whisked away in the night, without a hearing, on “public health” grounds.

Tina Vásquez

Dispatch

Nina Turner Hopes to Move Ohio Left

The "daughter of Cleveland" and former Bernie Sanders surrogate is running for Congress on a platform that includes a $15 minimum wage, recurring stimulus checks and free public college.

Nuala Bishari

Viewpoint

The Dangers of Factionalism in DSA

If the Left is to succeed where past generations have failed, it can’t allow sectarian organizations to operate as "parties within a party."

Bill Barclay, Leo Casey, Jack Clark, Richard Healey, Deborah Meier, Maxine Phillips, Chris Riddiough and Joseph M. Schwartz