The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Telling Cops to Get Criminal Justice Degrees Won’t End Police Violence

The field of criminal justice is itself part of the problem.

Ash Stephens

Labor

These Workers Don’t Get Aid and Are Going Hungry. A Tax on New York Billionaires Could Help Them.

Rebecca Chowdhury

Labor

Police Union Denies Racism, Calls AFL-CIO President “Disgraceful” in Irate Letter

Hamilton Nolan

Culture

Your White Neighbor’s “Black Lives Matter” Yard Sign Is Not Enough

Being anti-racist means making places safe for Black people to inhabit. Without that, BLM yard signs are just performative allyship.

Shayla Lawson

Labor

Weed That’s Legal and Union: Marijuana Dispensary Becomes First in Illinois to Unionize

Jeff Schuhrke

Culture

Artists Explore the Hidden Tolls of Life Lived at a Distance

What art looks like in isolation

Diana Babineau

Rural America

Global Agribusiness is Devouring the World’s Last Forests. We Need Local Food Systems, Now.

Gaurav Madan

Labor

How an Old-School Electricians Union Got Behind a Socialist Running on the Green New Deal

Mindy Isser

Feature

First You Bomb and Starve a Country. Then You’re Praised for Sending in Aid.

The perverse diplomatic charade of Saudi Arabia starting a fire then getting credit for providing fire blankets.

Sarah Lazare