The Wisconsin Idea

ViewpointElection 2024
Project 2025 Is Dead. Long Live Project 2025.
Trump, Vance and the hateful horizons of “trad futurism.”
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
ViewpointElection 2024
Kamala Harris’s Veep List is a Choice Between the Past and the Present for Education
VP contender Josh Shapiro has been a staunch supporter of school vouchers. Voters want good public schools—and a vice president willing to fight for them.
Akil Vicks
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875,000 Veterans, $382 Million in Medical Debt
When you’re 72 years old, disabled and a $108,094 notice lands in your mailbox—along with the number for a veterans suicide hotline.
Rory Fanning
Sign in support of Townsend Plan
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Who Would Want to Grow Old Only to Grow Poor?
Seniors are increasingly in debt and facing financial crises at levels not seen since the Great Depression. The mass movement that fought for seniors 100 years ago under the banner of the Townsend Plan could be a model for solving the growing crisis now.
Eleni Schirmer
InvestigationGoodman InstituteEn Español
Los escuadrones de muerte persiguiendo a los defensores del medio ambiente
Por todo el mundo, las fuerzas gubernamentales atacan a los activistas medioambientales con impunidad—y con el apoyo de Estados Unidos.
Alessandra Bergamin
LaborViewpointPalestine
Unions Demanding an End to Israel Military Aid Is a Welcome Escalation
While the Biden administration uses rhetorical tricks and delay tactics, labor unions are pressuring the White House to end the war by embracing an increasingly popular demand: “not one more bomb.”
Adam Johnson
ViewpointElection 2024
J.D. Vance’s Appalachian Graveyard
The Republican VP nominee’s politics of blame were never meant to help the working class.
Elizabeth Catte
ViewpointRural America
Utah’s Development Plans Threaten My Navajo Homeland
Tribes came together to win federal protection for Bears Ears. Now, the state of Utah could undermine the monument.
Mark Maryboy
ViewpointPalestineElection 2024
An Untold History of Joe Biden's Support for Israel
Documents reviewed in Delaware and New York give insight into how, starting early in Biden's political career, his positions appear to have significantly changed as his relationships strengthened with a growing pro-Israel lobby.
Branko Marcetic
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