The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Amazon Labor Activism Goes International as European and U.S. Workers Combine Forces

Hamilton Nolan

Rural America

A Mask Shortage Could Leave Farmers and Farm Workers Exposed to Toxic Pesticides

Melanie Bateman

Feature

Workers Are Fighting for Their Lives on May Day. They Deserve to Be Heard.

A conversation with Adam Ryan, a Target worker in Virginia and liaison for Target Workers Unite.

Maximillian Alvarez

Dispatch

Union Teachers Are Donating Their Stimulus Checks to the Undocumented

Undocumented workers are excluded from unemployment protections and stimulus checks, but not from union solidarity.

Brooke Anderson

Viewpoint

Congress: Either Come Babysit My Kids, or Cancel My Rent

I’m a mother of 6-year-old twins and like millions of other Americans, I can't pay rent—so I'm going on a rent strike.

Jenay Manley

Labor

Get Ready for Mass Strikes Across the U.S. This May Day

Christopher D. Cook

Viewpoint

Don’t Believe the Debt Hawks—More Stimulus Is the Only Path to Recovery

Fear-mongering over the deficit is the absolute wrong approach to the Covid-19 crisis.

Josh Bivens

Feature

A Federal Jobs Program for Contact Tracing

To safely reopen the economy, we need a public health corps. Here's how to build it.

Dayton Martindale

Viewpoint

The Real Reason Why the WHO Waited Until March to Declare a Global Pandemic

The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO’s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic.

Vijay Prashad