The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

What Would a Feminist City Look Like?

New York’s City Hall encampment provides a model for creating care-centered, inclusive spaces.

Apoorva Tadepalli

Rural America

Will Bayer Get the Drift on Dicamba?

The agrochemical company has been ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits alleging its potent herbicide drifts and damages crops.

Dave Dickey

Labor

Leverage Is Everything

The striking NBA players have inherent power, but so do you.

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

10 Ways Remote Learning Is Failing Our Students

Returning to in-person learning poses many risks. So does staying at home.

Dayton Martindale

Labor

A Direct Legacy of Slavery, Domestic Worker Exploitation Is On the Rise In the U.S.

The pandemic has left already vulnerable workers even more exposed to abuses on the job.

Maurizio Guerrero

Labor

The Failure to Unionize the Tech Industry Will Eat the Labor Movement Alive

The pandemic has made tech stronger, but unions haven't caught up.

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

The Republican Party's Puzzling Obsession with Socialism

With a pandemic ravaging the country, a historically unpopular president and no platform to run on, the GOP has set its sights on attacking socialism. It doesn’t seem to be working.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Viewpoint

Want to Abolish the Police? The First Step Is Putting Them Under Democratic Control.

Abolition is part of a broader struggle for democracy.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Viewpoint

Community Control Won’t Fix What’s Wrong with Cops

There's no reforming an inherently violent, white supremacist system. We must abolish the police.

Carl Williams and Christian Williams