The Wisconsin Idea

Politics

She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding.

Diana Greene Foster, who was behind the landmark Turnaway Study, wanted to study the health and economic impacts of the loss of abortion access.

Shefali Luthra, The 19th

ViewpointPolitics

Chris Rufo and the Burger Kings

An extremely online debate reveals fractures in the MAGA coalition and low-status yearnings for a white aristocracy.

Matt McManus

LaborViewpoint

Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.

Kim Kelly

Viewpoint

Robert McChesney Was a Lifelong Fighter for Democratic Media

Let's honor Robert McChesney by continuing his fight for a media free from corporate control.

Dean Baker

LaborViewpoint

Unions Without Strikes

Today's labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.

Hamilton Nolan

Culture

"I feared the door. Someone coming to take my parents away."

Poetry in <i>We Contain Landscapes</i> spotlights a child of formerly undocumented Polish immigrants.

Patrycja Humienik

Labor

National Unions Demand Release of Detained Immigrant Workers

“We have to take actions where we can show that we can win and that help overcome people’s fear.”

Natascha Elena Uhlmann

Viewpoint

How Sweeping Tariffs Came to Be and Why It Matters

Targeted tariffs could be an important part of an industrial policy tool kit—but Trump's sweeping tariff policy will harm workers, not help them.

Todd N. Tucker

Viewpoint

Trump's Tariffs Have Nothing to Do With Liberation

Trade justice demands systemic reform: binding labor rights, climate protections and democratic accountability. Trump's poorly designed tariffs offer none of that.

Iza Camarillo