The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

Abolitionist Library Workers Want Library Access for All. That Begins with Getting Cops Out.

Library staff work to remove the need for police officers within libraries and focus on de-escalating training.

Jason Christian

Rural America

In North Carolina’s Tobacco Fields, Guest Workers Battle the “Green Monster”

The state’s tobacco harvest increasingly relies on guest workers, who face nicotine poisoning and what advocates say are inadequate labor protections.

Da Yeon Eom

Labor

100 Years Ago, Miners Carried Out the Largest Armed Labor Uprising in U.S. History

During the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, West Virginia workers fought for their rights in a bloody campaign to unionize the coal mines.

Paul Salstrom and Steven Stoll

Viewpoint

Leaving Afghanistan Is the Right Thing To Do. We Never Should Have Been There.

Now our obligation is to those Afghans living with the consequences of our four decades of intervention.

Peter Certo

Departments

Debt Is Usually Treated As A Personal Failure. Debtors' Unions Are Changing That.

With nearly three out of four households carrying some kind of debt, debtors' unions are reframing indebtedness as a shared problem and a source of collective power.

In These Times Editors

Labor

Workers of Color at Major Electric Bus Company Allege Widespread Racism on the Job

Employees of New Flyer in California and Alabama say they have faced years of discrimination.

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

How Domestic Elites and Foreign Meddling Undermine Haitian Democracy

To understand the rise and fall of Jovenel Moïse, we must understand the forces that propped him up.

Sophonie Milande Joseph and François Pierre-Louis

LaborFeature

In the Coal Mines, Workers Are Dying to Make a Living

Mining companies increasingly rely on cheaper contractors who face longer hours and higher risk of accidents.

Kari Lydersen

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