The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

How to Boost Unions’ Power? Sectoral Bargaining.

Industry-wide bargaining could decrease inequality and improve livelihoods for unionized workers.

In These Times Editors

Labor

How Can We Rebuild Working-Class Politics? Let’s Go to “Strike School.”

In an interview, longtime organizer Jane McAlevey explains how unions and the Left across the globe have the power to defeat the billionaires—if we engage in concerted, collective action.

Eric Blanc

Feature

How Bipartisan Anti-China Rhetoric Is Being Used to Increase U.S. Military Spending

Republicans and Democrats are using the “menace” of China to justify pouring billions into the Pentagon's budget.

Sarah Lazare

FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute

The Supreme Court Said Their Sentencing Was Unconstitutional. But They’re Still Behind Bars.

Despite SCOTUS rulings against life without parole sentences for juveniles, most who received that sentence remain incarcerated.

Katie Rose Quandt

Feature

The Disenfranchised Voters No One Is Talking About: Residents of U.S. Colonies

Hundreds of thousands in Guam and across the U.S. territories will be unable to cast a ballot this November. It’s a stark reminder of America’s brutal colonial legacy.

Tiara R. Na'puti

ClimateInvestigationGoodman Institute

Exxon Spends Millions on Facebook To Keep the Fossil Fuel Industry Alive

Aided by a right-wing political consulting firm, the company is rallying supporters to fight for oil and gas interests at every level of government.

Christine MacDonald

Feature

Politicians Play Chicken With Economic Relief While Americans Starve

Republicans and Democrats are prioritizing their own political fortunes over the wellbeing of millions.

Hadas Thier

Feature

13 Ways the Vote Is Being Suppressed Ahead of the Election

Half of American voters expect to have difficulty casting a ballot this November.

Janea Wilson

Rural America

The U.S. Still Uses Dozens of Hazardous Pesticides Banned in Other Countries

Phorate, for example—the “extremely hazardous” insecticide that is most used in the U.S.—is banned in 38 countries, including China, Brazil and India.

Pramod Acharya