The Wisconsin Idea

Podcast

Texas Professor Terminated Over a Fascist's Doctored Video

The latest target in MAGA’s campaign against higher education details the proceedings against him and the collective organizing effort behind him.

Maximillian Alvarez

Dispatch

On the Trail with Zohran

A Sunday of hope as Mamdani speaks to canvassers in Bed-Stuy ahead of the mayoral election on November 4

Hamilton Nolan

HousingPolitics

Eviction By ICE?

Federal immigration agents appear to have targeted Chicago tenants in “deliberate and systematic ways.” They’re still searching for answers about their landlord’s role in the raid.

Rebecca Burns

Politics

Is Economic Populism the Key to Winning Over Rust Belt Voters?

A new study from the Center for Working-Class Politics shows that voters in battleground states want fairness, accountability and immediate relief from rising costs. The results could point the way forward for a Democratic Party stuck in the wilderness.

Jared Abbott

Rural America

In North Carolina, Immigrants Resist the U.S. “Language Graveyard”

Speakers of Hñähñu, an Indigenous language from what is now Mexico, are banding together to preserve their culture.

Anya Petrone Slepyan

Politics

The Biggest Threat to Mamdani’s Agenda Isn’t Trump—It’s Wall Street

Wall Street destroyed New York City’s social welfare economy in 1975. Avoiding that fate under Mayor Mamdani will require popular movements to discipline the super rich.

Michael Beyea Reagan

Palestine

Recognizing Palestinian Statehood Is the Floor. Liberation Must Be the Ceiling.

One by one, nations formally recognized the State of Palestine. But what does that mean with Gaza reduced to rubble?

Hend Salama Abo Helow

LaborPolitics

The Data Brokers Fueling ICE’s Deportation Machine—And the Union Shareholders Fighting Back

"As investors, we are thinking about this as a risk to our investments, but also as a social and ethical issue.”

Maurizio Guerrero

FeatureCover Story

American Narcissus

Pete Hegseth is a modern-day Narcissus: preoccupied with image, extravagantly unqualified for his position yet extraordinarily self-assured, morally bankrupt, intellectually barren and as empty as a shattered amphora.

Kim Kelly