The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

Fox News, Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda

For nearly a quarter of American adults, Fox News is their only cable news source. It tells them what Trump wants them to hear.

Joel Bleifuss

Dispatch

Using Roleplaying To Imagine Life Under a Green New Deal—Dungeons & Dragons Style

Instead of wizards and clerics, Iowans are envisioning roles like community planners and memory stewards, in an environmentally and economically just society.

Gavin Aronsen

Feature

Buttigieg Is Shocked, Shocked at McKinsey’s Transgressions. But It Was Notorious When He Joined It.

McKinsey was embroiled in a nationwide scandal over helping insurance companies squeeze customers.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

“The Algorithm Made Us Do It”: How Bosses at Instacart “Mathwash” Labor Exploitation

Audrey Winn

Feature

CAP Publicly Distanced Itself From the UAE. 8 Months Later, It Was Still Meeting with UAE Lobbyists.

A foreign policy expert at the influential think tank remained close to UAE lobbyists.

Sarah Lazare

Feature

Cities Aren’t Waiting for a Federal Green New Deal

Activists are pushing sweeping climate action at the local level.

Indigo Olivier

Labor

Trump’s North America Trade Deal Is Poised to Worsen Climate Change—But Dems Don’t Seem To Mind

Rachel M. Cohen

Rural America

This Oasis Shows the Diverse History of the Mexico Borderlands. Trump’s Wall Threatens to Destroy It

Jared Orsi

InvestigationGoodman Institute

The “Collateral Damage” of the U.S.’s Unofficial War in Somalia

"Surgical" U.S. air strikes in Somalia affect more than just their targets.

Amanda Sperber