The Wisconsin Idea

Rural America

How Cuts to Unemployment Benefits Will Hurt Rural People

Republican governors in at least 22 states are ending federal unemployment assistance. The cuts will hit hard in rural areas and communities of color.

Aallyah Wright

Feature

Secret IRS Files Reveal Just How Little the Wealthiest Pay in Income Tax

Documents obtained by ProPublica show billionaires like Elon Musk contribute a pittance relative to their earnings—and sometimes nothing at all.

Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel

Labor

Democrats Don't Grasp That Unions Can Transform the Electorate

Unions are machines for producing people who wouldn't be satisfied with Joe Manchin's obstinance.

Hamilton Nolan

ViewpointCulture

RIP Jack Terricloth (1970-2021) of the World/Inferno Friendship Society

Raise a glass to toast the life and legacy of an anti-capitalist, cabaret punk iconoclast.

A.M. Gittlitz

Departments

Universal Child Care Could Revolutionize the Economy

The pandemic has exposed the utter lack of support for working parents. Universal child care is a completely workable solution.

In These Times Editors

Rural America

In the Southeast, Climate Change Finds a Landscape Already Ravaged by Inequality

Meet the groups demanding climate justice that fits the region's unique needs.

Paul Gordon

Culture

Toward Radical, Queer, Erotic Movement-Building

A conversation on labor and pleasure with Kemi Alabi and Tina Horn of the Echoing Ida and We Too collections.

Clara Liang, Catherine Henderson, Daniela Ochoa-Bravo, Alex DiBranco and Sadie Morris

Viewpoint

Bezos the Great and Powerful

Beyond the dangers of corporate consolidation, Amazon's acquisition of MGM has exposed an American economy that's mostly make-believe.

Jacob Bacharach

Labor

Death and Texas

Ric Ortiz reflects on his work as the chief medical investigator for Nueces County, and the ways it has influenced his worldview.

Jules Taylor