The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

In U.S. Counties Where Lynchings Were Prevalent, Police Are More Likely to Shoot Black People

Areas with higher numbers of lynchings from 1877 to 1950 have more officer-involved shootings of Black Americans today.

Jhacova Williams and Carl Romer

Viewpoint

The Long List of Names That Came Before Breonna Taylor and George Floyd

Samuel Williams. Tyisha Miller. Amadou Diallo. Eric Garner. I've reported their names for decades. This time feels different.

Salim Muwakkil

Labor

AFL-CIO Leader Richard Trumka Defends Police Unions by Comparing Them to Employers

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

It’s Not Just Covid That Has Hondurans Starving. It’s Also U.S. Policy.

On the roots of the Honduran hunger crisis.

Meghan Krausch

Labor

Celebrating Juneteenth, Labor Finds Its Voice for Racial Justice

Hamilton Nolan

Rural America

Deadly Drift: The Herbicide Dicamba is Damaging Trees Across the Midwest and South

Johnathan Hettinger

LaborViewpoint

The Thing About Police Unions

Adeshina Emmanuel

Labor

SEIU President: Expelling Police Unions From the Labor Movement “Has to Be Considered”

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

Undocumented Farmworkers Are Refusing Covid Tests for Fear of Losing Their Jobs

Michelle Fawcett and Arun Gupta