The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

If We Don’t Break Up Big Tech, We’ll All Be Uber Drivers Soon

Big tech is a common enemy for workers and small business owners—but some on the Left just don't see it.

Moe Tkacik

Feature

Pfizer Helped Create the Global Patent Rules. Now it's Using Them to Undercut Access to the Covid Vaccine.

The pharmaceutical company is opposing a proposal at the World Trade Organization to expand vaccine access to poor countries.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

Dear Mackenzie: There's One More Donation You Owe to the World

Unionize Amazon.

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

Billionaires Want to Be the Gatekeepers of the Solar System

Space is the final (profitable) frontier—and it’s Elon Musk’s for the taking.

Eleanor Penny

Viewpoint

Socialism Informs the Best of Our Politics

The case for democratic socialism in the 21st century.

Michael Harrington

Viewpoint

The Best Moment of 2020: The Burning of the Third Precinct

Everything else was bad

Hamilton Nolan

Climate

For the Green New Deal to Work, It Has to Reject “Growth”

How pursuing unfettered GDP growth makes it impossible to achieve the objectives of the Green New Deal.

Riccardo Mastini, Giorgos Kallis and Jason Hickel

Labor

Workers Should Run the World: A Bus Operator's Perspective

A conversation with Erek Slater, a bus operator for the Chicago Transit Authority.

Maximillian Alvarez

Dispatch

From Student Debtor to Soldier

How the student loan debt crisis forces low-income students of color into the military.

Anna Attie