The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

Nina Turner Hopes to Move Ohio Left

The "daughter of Cleveland" and former Bernie Sanders surrogate is running for Congress on a platform that includes a $15 minimum wage, recurring stimulus checks and free public college.

Nuala Bishari

Viewpoint

The Dangers of Factionalism in DSA

If the Left is to succeed where past generations have failed, it can’t allow sectarian organizations to operate as "parties within a party."

Bill Barclay, Leo Casey, Jack Clark, Richard Healey, Deborah Meier, Maxine Phillips, Chris Riddiough and Joseph M. Schwartz

Feature

One-Click Shopping Has Brought American Workers to the Brink

In his new book “Fulfillment,” reporter Alec MacGillis chronicles how Amazon came to exemplify American inequality.

Andru Okun

Violence Against Asian Women Workers Is All-American

Two weeks after the March 16th attacks, we must continue the work to dismantle centuries-long, harmful narratives about Asian women.

Clara Liang

Labor

Get the Federal Government to Fund Union Organizing. Now.

The most obvious and brilliant idea to revive organized labor, fast.

Hamilton Nolan

Dispatch

The UK's Vaccine Rollout Is the Latest Reminder We Need Universal Healthcare

Britain's vaccination rate has far outpaced the rest of the West. The triumph belongs to its National Health Service.

Natasha Hakimi Zapata

LaborDispatch

New Hampshire Republicans Are Using Covid to Ram Through Right-to-Work Legislation

Lawmakers in the state have blocked the legislation for years, but a radicalized GOP appears bent on pushing it through.

C.M. Lewis

Rural America

Study: “Salmon Remain on the Brink of Extinction. And Time Is Running Out.”

Between dams and warming waters, West Coast populations of wild salmon have plunged by 98%. What will it take to stop the decline?

Tara Lohan

Rural America

“In for a Fight": Rural Wisconsinites Resist Influx of Industrial Hog Facilities

Despite local efforts to block new Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), corporate agriculture interests are legislating and intimidating their way out of accountability.

Simon Davis-Cohen