The Wisconsin Idea

Rural America

How Farmers Markets and Food Trucks Became a Beachhead for Gentrification

In gentrifying neighborhoods, developers use food options to lure in more affluent residents, and longtime residents find themselves forced to compete against the “urban food machine.”

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

Departments

The People the Left Lost to the Anti-Abortion Movement

After <i>Roe</i>, the Church and the Right outmaneuvered us for the moral high ground.

In These Times Editors

Labor

Wisconsin Hay Farmers vs. Big Ag

A conversation with Lisa Doerr, co-owner of a hay farm in Polk County that supplies food for small-scale livestock farmers in the area.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

The Strike Wave Is a Big Flashing Sign That We Need More New Union Organizing

If you want more strikes, make more union members.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Teamster Insurgents Could Win Their Union Election

They're planning for what comes after.

Ryan Haney

Viewpoint

The Pentagon Is Still Lying About the Deadly U.S. Drone Program

A wrongly targeted Afghan aid worker and his family are among the latest casualties.

Leonard C. Goodman

Labor

Dollar General Workers Stare Down Historic Union Vote, Vowing "We're Gonna Fight"

With little national attention, a Connecticut Dollar General store could soon help unions crack a vital low-wage industry.

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

Afro-Indigenous People in Honduras Are Being Forcibly Displaced. Washington Is Complicit.

Many would-be migrants, like the Garifuna, would love nothing more than to stay in our homes. It’s Washington that’s making it difficult.

Miriam Miranda

The U.S. Finally Found a Way to Reduce Child Poverty. Why Are Some Democrats Opposed?

While the expanded child tax credit has been a win-win for families and the economy, conservative Democrats in Congress are still finding ways to undermine it.

Sonali Kolhatkar