The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

All Undocumented Immigrants Deserve Citizenship—Not Just “Essential Workers”

The pandemic has made clear that we need to provide citizenship for all immigrants, and safe working conditions for all workers.

Shannon Gleeson and Sofya Aptekar

Feature

Nationalize the Pharmaceutical Industry Now

The status quo will kill us.

Hadas Thier

Labor

Foreign Farm Workers Already Face Abusive Conditions. Now Trump Wants to Cut Their Wages.

Maurizio Guerrero

Viewpoint

There Is No Plan (For You)

Unemployment, evictions, business failure, a pandemic and health crises are all here at once. The federal government doesn't care.

Hamilton Nolan

Culture

In 1971, Nixon Passed a Rule to Doom the Post Office. Now, It’s Finally Happening.

The Post Office used to be federally funded. Then, Republicans passed legislation requiring it to "pay for itself."

Rebecca Burns

Rural America

‘We Get There First or White Supremacists Do’: How These Rural Canvassers Disrupt Racist Narratives

Jordan Green

Viewpoint

“Blue Lives Matter” Comes to Brooklyn, and Everyone Screams

In Bay Ridge, pro-police demonstrators were met with the righteous anger of Black Lives Matter.

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

The Forgotten History of the Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left

A conversation with scholar Benjamin Balthaser about Jewish, working-class anti-Zionism in the 1930s and '40s.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

The Parent Trap

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle