The Wisconsin Idea

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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

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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

Viewpoint

How to Win Medicare for All Under President Biden

With a Democratic White House and Congress, we have an opportunity to organize like never before to finally achieve a universal, single-payer healthcare system. Let’s seize it.

Michael Lighty

Labor

The Labor Movement Has a Game Plan for the Biden Era

This time, unions intend to get something done.

Jeff Schuhrke

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We Don't Need to Do This To Ourselves

Turning the nation's capital into an armed camp for Biden's inauguration to prove we don't live in fear.

Hamilton Nolan