The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

The Powerful Movement To Micromanage and Defund Public Schools Has Been Awfully Quiet About Police

Shaun Richman

Viewpoint

What’s Missing From the Biden-Bernie Task Force Plan? Medicare for All.

The recommendations are an improvement on Biden's previous healthcare plans, but a public option won't cut it. We need free, universal coverage.

Natalie Shure

Feature

The People Who Will Draft the Democratic Platform Have a Conflict of Interest Problem

Next up after the Biden-Sanders task forces? The Democratic platform drafting committee—and progressives have their work cut out for them.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

The Public Sector’s Right to Strike Is Left Behind in Biden-Bernie Task Force Compromise

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Organizing Against Police Unions Has Invigorated Hollywood’s Labor Movement, Members Say

Alice Herman

Rural America

Black People Own Less of the U.S. than 100 Years Ago. A ‘Black Commons’ Could Help Reverse the Trend

Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone

Labor

The Future of Homeless Organizing Lives on the Prettiest Street in Philadelphia

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

How the Trump Administration’s Small Business Protection Program Has Failed Communities of Color

The Covid-19 pandemic has devastated businesses run by people of color. The Trump administration's Small Business Administration isn’t helping.

Miranda Litwak

Feature

The Coddling of the Elites

Free speech for whom, exactly?

Hamilton Nolan