The Wisconsin Idea

LaborViewpoint

Believe It Or Not, Unions Have Even Bigger Problems than the 2024 Election

With just weeks until Election Day, the current political trends are a warning siren to the labor movement.

Hamilton Nolan

Culture

It’s Important I Remember That I’m Avoiding the Footage

Two poems on Tyre Nichols and the spectacle of police-sanctioned Black death.

Cortney Lamar Charleston

ViewpointPalestine

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Challenging the Cognitive Dissonance of Pro-Israel Liberalism

Coates is taking critiques of Zionism into the mainstream, chipping away at Israel’s increasingly dubious liberal self-image.

Adam Johnson

Labor

The Race Against the Clock to a Workplace Heat Rule

The November election could make or break a draft federal heat protection. Workers' lives hang in the balance.

Isabel Ashford Arya

DispatchCulture

Mutual Aid and Mosh Pits

Punks are stepping up for their communities—one show at a time.

Briana L. Ureña-Ravelo

ViewpointCulture

Big Back Panic: Fatphobia's Rebrand

Anti-fatness is back with a vengeance so aggressive it puts 1990s ​“heroin chic” to shame.

Tee Noir

LaborViewpointClimate

The Search for Green Common Ground

A capitalist transition to electric cars pits auto workers, transit riders and frontline communities against each other. What happens when they sit down together?

Emmett Hopkins

Viewpoint

A Fascist Specter Is Haunting America

Electoral appeals to the American worker are fueling racism against immigrants.

Alberto Toscano

LaborPodcast

The Long Road to Union Recognition: Trader Joe’s Workers Press On

The national chain, widely known as “Your Neighborhood Grocery Store,” continues engaging in unfair labor practices and fighting against workers’ unionization.

Maximillian Alvarez