The Wisconsin Idea

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

Feature

“The Goal Is to Abolish the Police”: A Conversation with Assata’s Daughters

Young organizers on 'planting the seeds' of a better world.

Selah Amoaku, Destiny Bell and Theo Cunningham

Rural America

From Tractors to Phones, Companies Don’t Want You to Repair Stuff. Appalachians Are Fighting Back

Carolina Norman

Labor

OSHA Is Failing Essential Workers. Why Not Let Them Sue Their Bosses?

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

Child Care Workers Are Now a Mighty Force With a Huge New Union. It Only Took 17 Years.

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

Why Shipbuilders in Coastal Maine are (Still) On Strike

A conversation with Jami Bellefleur, a Maine shipbuilder.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

California Hospital Workers Strike, Fracturing Pandemic’s Uneasy Labor Peace

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

“We Are On the Cusp of Something Great”: A Black Liberation Organizer on Next Steps for the Movement

An interview with Nikita Mitchell

Nikita Mitchell