The Wisconsin Idea

LaborViewpoint

What Amazon Organizers Can Learn From the Fight for 15

Organizers at Amazon can take lessons from the Fight for 15’s success at building pressure through a broad public campaign—and from its failure to really build an organization of, by, and for workers.

Rand Wilson and Peter Olney

Departments

The Big Idea: Publicly Funded Art

Art is how we make sense of ourselves. But the U.S. government, unlike many other countries, is investing in it less and less.

J. Patrick Patterson

LaborViewpoint

Julio Foolio, Unions and “Sweat Equity”

How incarceration and labor are bound together.

Calvin John Smiley

Viewpoint

The Possibilities of Grief as a Rupture

Abolition Judaism and rethinking the holiday of Tisha B’Av

Andrue Kahn and Dania Rajendra

LaborViewpoint

Working People Are Being Fleeced to Pay for a Bloated Military Budget

While costs rise for everything, SNAP recipients who lost benefits—and the farmers who fed them—are being asked to shell out $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon.

Danaka Katovich

Politics

The People Fighting Back: Inside Maine’s Immigrant Defense Movement

An excerpt from 'Breaking ICE' on how Maine became the blueprint for an immigration defense movement that caught fire in the Trump era.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Viewpoint

Don’t Look Away from Cuba

The indictment of Raul Castro is the latest in a string of escalations aimed at building pretext for a U.S. invasion of the island nation.

Chris Mills Rodrigo

InterviewPolitics

How Europe's Economic Collapse Is Fueling the War in Ukraine

A Marxist economist argues that the war in Ukraine cannot be understood without confronting the collapse of European capitalism and the loss of empire.

Richard D. Wolff and Glenn Diesen

LaborPodcast

How Labor Journalists Contend With a Constricted and Polarized Media Landscape

A conversation with Maximillian Alvarez, Hamilton Nolan, Kim Kelly and Alex Press on the state of organized worker’s movements, unions and reporting in the age of AI.

Maximillian Alvarez