The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

An Injury to Portland Is an Injury to All

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

Why the South Needs Pro-Worker Media

A conversation with David Story and Jacob Morrison, the hosts of The Valley Labor Report, a new radio show out of Huntsville, Alabama.

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

The Search for a Covid Vaccine Is Not an Arms Race

Treating vaccine research like a national security secret endangers us all.

Sarah Lazare

Viewpoint

Workers Blow the Whistle on Mass Death

Private equity firms have imposed austerity measures on the hospitals they acquire. In a pandemic, that’s meant countless preventable deaths.

Moe Tkacik

Labor

How the Foster Care System Punishes the Poor

Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law

Labor

The Former Deadspin People Explain How to Launch a Worker-Owned Media Co-op That Might Succeed

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

Chicago Is Spending $1.6 Billion on 13,000 Police. Is It Worth It?

With shootings and murders on the rise, community organizers and criminologists point to a police hiring spree from just four years ago to show that more cops on Chicago’s streets aren’t the answer.

Carlos Ballesteros

DispatchRural America

Rural Black Lives Matter

After Travon Brown found a cross burning in his yard, he organized a Black Lives Matter march in the rural town of Marion, Va., where hundreds of angry counter-protestors were ready and waiting.

Mason Adams

Labor

If “Cancel Culture” Is About Getting Fired, Let’s Cancel At-Will Employment

Moshe Z. Marvit and Shaun Richman