The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

You Can't Hurt Hedge Funds By Acting Exactly Like Them

Pumping up GameStop will do nothing to change what people hate about Wall Street. There's a better way.

Hamilton Nolan

Dispatch

The Trump Administration's Cruelty Haunts Our Virtual Immigration Courts

How “judicial black sites” have come to shape our immigration system.

Arvind Dilawar

Rural America

Here’s How Biden Could Help Fix the Rural Healthcare Crisis

Since long before Covid, rural health has suffered from federal misunderstanding and neglect.

Lauren Hughes and Sameer Vohra

Labor

Toiling in the Marijuana Fields

A conversation with an organic weed grower in Alaska.

Maximillian Alvarez

What the GameStop Bubble Reveals About Our Monstrous Financial System

The online pranksters behind the great GameStop bubble of 2021 are probably going to lose a lot of money. But they’ve done the world a service by reminding us of the absurdity of the stock market.

Doug Henwood

Labor

Union Density Went Up Last Year! Don't Get Too Excited.

When you do the math, the story is not as great as it seems.

Hamilton Nolan

Culture

Against Loving Your Job

"We need a politics of time. A political understanding that our lives are ours to do with what we will."

Sarah Jaffe

Labor

Chicago Teachers Are Showing the Country How to Fight an Unsafe Reopening

As the mayor tries to force them back into schools, teachers may be headed into another strike.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

How the Deep Roots of Farm Labor Solidarity Helped Wisconsin Survive the Pandemic

A century of agrarian organizing pays off.

Hannah Faris