The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

My Family Was Almost “Repatriated” to Mexico in the 1930s. I See It Happening Again.

The pressure to “self-deport,” driven by Trump’s threats and rising White nationalism, echoes a dark chapter of U.S. history.

Nyki Duda

Feature

The Myth of Pentagon Budget Cuts

As Trump and Musk slash social spending, military spending is set to soar.

Stephen Semler and Sarah Lazare

Rural America

“There’s Going To Be Firefighters that Die Because of This, There Will Be Communities that Burn”

Firefighters warn of dire consequences from Trump’s cuts to federal wildfire crews.

Alex Brown

LaborDispatchSpanishEn Español

“No abran la puerta”: Cómo Chicago está frustrando la campaña de miedo de ICE

Meses de trabajo para conocer sus derechos han hecho que el zar fronterizo de Trump se queje.

Sarah Lazare and Rebecca Burns

ViewpointPolitics

MAGA’s Latin American Models

Latin America offers more telling parallels for what to expect from U.S. authoritarianism—and better lessons on how to fight back.

Naomi Braine

PalestinePolitics

Sanders Moves to Block Weapons Sales to Israel

The Vermont Senator filed resolutions that would block $8.5 billion worth of offensive weapons from being used in the genocide of Palestinians.

Sharon Zhang

Viewpoint

Trump's Attack on Science Is an Attack on the Public

The Trump administration is defunding and censoring science to serve corrupt corporate interests.

Basav Sen

PalestineCulture

Poetry as a Unifying Weapon

There is no breath, no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people, feel ancestrally for our brothers and sisters in Palestine.

Julia Wright

LaborPodcast

Democracy dies, first, in the workplace

A conversation on how the decline of unions and the rise of inequality reveals the urgent need for a revitalized labor movement.

Maximillian Alvarez, Hamilton Nolan and Sara Nelson