The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

It Is Good When Leaders Experience the Consequences of Their Own Decisions

Trump's Covid diagnosis could help lead to better government through karma.

Hamilton Nolan

DispatchRural America

Native Voters Could Swing the 2020 Election—If They’re Able to Vote

Menominee tribal citizens are working to make Native votes count in Wisconsin

Stephanie Woodard

Viewpoint

It's Cheap to Be Rich

The rot in our economic system stems from an increasingly regressive tax system that favors corporations and the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us.

Hadas Thier

Labor

Is the Conservative Case for Organized Labor an Oxymoron?

An interview with Oren Cass about the ideas behind his “Conservative Future for the American Labor Movement.”

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

Bad America

Our debate recap: A nation decides whether it's time for the final act.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Left Organizers Are Being Targeted and Persecuted

A conversation with Amanda Yee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Maximillian Alvarez

Culture

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Felt Like the Loss of a Friend

Ginsburg’s story is, in many ways, the story of women in the 20th century. It’s no surprise, then, that her loss feels deeply personal.

Diana Babineau

LaborDispatch

Restaurant Workers Are Building Solidarity Amid the Pandemic

When workers at a pizza joint refused to train the people replacing them, they were fired. Now they're unionizing.

Alice Herman

Labor

How Amy Coney Barrett's Appointment Would Escalate the War on Workers

A conversation with labor activist and legal scholar James Gray Pope.

Alice Herman