The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

Don’t Be Fooled: Billionaires Are Fighting the Fair Tax Because They Don’t Want to Pay Up

The Illinois Fair Tax proposal would benefit the working class, communities of color and women by finally taxing the super-rich. That’s why wealthy people are trying to kill it.

Amisha Patel

Feature

DHS Is Using Immigration Crackdown to Suppress the Latino Vote, Critics Say

From expediting deportations to placing “wanted” billboard ads across Pennsylvania, rights advocates warn DHS is intimidating voters.

Maurizio Guerrero

ViewpointRural America

How Decades of Corporate-Friendly Farm Policies Wrecked Rural America

A Wisconsin dairy farmer explains what Democrats need to do to rebuild rural communities and regain the ground they’ve lost.

Jim Goodman

Viewpoint

Everyone Loves Our Mass National Hypnosis

After the final Trump-Biden debate, we only get one more chance to snap out of it.

Hamilton Nolan

Shahid Buttar Wants to Take Back San Francisco For the Left

The underdog candidate running against Nancy Pelosi says the House Speaker is rich, entitled and out of touch.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

How to Boost Unions’ Power? Sectoral Bargaining.

Industry-wide bargaining could decrease inequality and improve livelihoods for unionized workers.

In These Times Editors

Labor

How Can We Rebuild Working-Class Politics? Let’s Go to “Strike School.”

In an interview, longtime organizer Jane McAlevey explains how unions and the Left across the globe have the power to defeat the billionaires—if we engage in concerted, collective action.

Eric Blanc

Feature

How Bipartisan Anti-China Rhetoric Is Being Used to Increase U.S. Military Spending

Republicans and Democrats are using the “menace” of China to justify pouring billions into the Pentagon's budget.

Sarah Lazare

FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute

The Supreme Court Said Their Sentencing Was Unconstitutional. But They’re Still Behind Bars.

Despite SCOTUS rulings against life without parole sentences for juveniles, most who received that sentence remain incarcerated.

Katie Rose Quandt