The Wisconsin Idea

ViewpointElection 2024

Democracy Despises a Coronation

Let the DNC be a battle. It's healthy. We'll kick Trump's ass on the other side.

Hamilton Nolan

ViewpointClimate

Scenes From a Sacrifice Zone: South Baltimore Residents Fight Back Against Industrial Pollution

“I want everybody in this community to be able to breathe clean air, and it's time to say enough's enough.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Dispatch

The Farmers Who Can’t Afford Farms

Thirty-eight percent of young farmers—including 62% of young Black farmers—have student debt, which can make it impossible to take on farm loans.

Joseph Bullington

Housing

Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless

How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Borders and the Exchange of Humans for Debt

Borders and debt are new instruments of violence in a system that has had many names.

Heba Gowayed

ViewpointPalestine

The Grave Cost of Funding Israel's War Machine

To end U.S. support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, cold, hard calculations about war spending versus domestic programs could have greater resonance in an election year.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Viewpoint

UK Riots Have Their Roots in a History of Hate

The racism in the streets was seeded by the racism of the state.

Alberto Toscano

LaborViewpointPalestine

Why Is the UAW’s Federal Monitor Involving Himself in the Union’s Stance on Gaza?

The monitor tasked with overseeing the union’s compliance with a federal consent decree is inappropriately challenging the union’s call for a cease-fire in Gaza.

Andy Levin and Sanjukta Paul

Culture

Reflections on the 10-year Anniversary of the Ferguson Protests

I don’t blame Michael Brown for having a smoking habit. Nor will I blame the boy for stealing a pack of smokes on August 9, 2014.

Sherell Barbee and Jacqui Germain