The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

The Little Known, Racist History of the 911 Emergency Call System

The 911 system we have today was created in response to the 1967 civil rights protests.

Katrina Feldkamp and S. Rebecca Neusteter

Labor

The Two Things Unions Traded Away That Handed Workers to Trump

Industrial workers know their unions can't stop plant closures.

Staughton Lynd

LaborDispatch

Here's Why the People Who Pick Our Food Are Going Hungry During Covid

Historic discrimination has left farmworkers with fewer protections than other workers, a practice known as agricultural exceptionalism.

Allison Salerno

ViewpointFeature

A Recipe for Making Change in Biden's Washington

To make it happen, progressives must learn to co-govern and build more power.

Robert Kraig

Rural America

Growing Food in Self-Defense

For years, Black folks in this small South Carolina town have tended gardens and raised animals to build personal resilience and protect their culture.

Gillian Richards-Greaves

Labor

UAW Members Have an Historic Opportunity to Democratize Their Union

The UAW has been a one-party union for decades. That could all change.

Nelson Lichtenstein

LaborViewpoint

The “Essential Worker” Swindle

How this label is used to justify a social order in which workers are abused, discarded and left to die.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

These Cargill Workers in Turkey Have Spent Over 1,000 Days Protesting Their Unfair Firing

A conversation with Suat Karlikaya, a lead organizer with the Tobacco, Drink, Food and Allied Workers Trade Union of Turkey.

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

A Presidential Inauguration Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun

Presidents change, but the soldiers stay the same.

Hamilton Nolan