The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

Give Every Child a $1,000 Trust Account and the Next Crisis Won’t Be So Bad

To weather the economic wreckage of the Covid-19 crisis—and prepare for future disasters—we should enact a Just Futures Fund.

Jim Pugh

Rural America

Meat Factory Work is Dangerous in Normal Times. The Same Conditions Spread Covid-19

Michael Haedicke

Labor

The Year of Magical Thinking

Hamilton Nolan

Culture

SARS Lessons Lost

What the United States should have learned from SARS—and blatantly ignored.

Indigo Olivier

Feature

Do Charter Schools’ “Core Values” Apply to Workers?

A conversation with MacKenna Alvarez, a middle-school teacher in New York City.

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

Democratic Socialist Officials Lay Out Demands for Local Government Responses to Covid-19

A just response to the pandemic requires centering working people. Here's where to start.

Democratic Socialist Elected Officials

Labor

The Vet Techs Nursing Your Puppies Say They’re Poorly Compensated and Scared of Getting Sick

Argow Wass

Labor

The Long-Neglected Online Labor Organizing Space Is Getting More Crowded

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

The President Is Goading Anti-Lockdown Militias to Violence

We must not overlook the danger of Trump's signaling.

Max Elbaum