The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

What’s at Stake in Chicago Teachers’ Strike: Whether Unions Can Bargain for the Entire Working Class

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

On Indigenous People’s Day, Anishinaabeg Leaders March Against Enbridge’s $7.5 Billion Oil Pipeline

The pipeline’s route would carry 760,000 barrels of oil per day, crossing 15 watersheds affecting 215 lakes, and violating Ojibwe treaty rights.

Amelia Diehl

Feature

Trump’s Betrayal of the Kurds Is Terrible, But the Answer Is Not Endless War

Like millions of others, the Kurds are victims of disastrous U.S. interventions in the region.

Khury Petersen-Smith

Rural America

A Fire Kept Burning: Mohawks In The North Country Work to Revive their Language

James Dinneen

Feature

Hundreds of Thousands Are Without Power Thanks to PG&E. This Shows Why We Need Public Ownership.

The utility giant's mass blackouts in California are just the tip of the iceberg.

Brooke Anderson

InvestigationGoodman Institute

Treated Like Meat: Women in Meatpacking Say #MeToo

At the world’s largest pork processing company, Smithfield Foods, workers say as long as lines are moving fast, supervisors who sexually harass them get a free pass.

Lauren Kaori Gurley

Feature

How the DCCC’s “Blacklist” Could Blow Up in the Democratic Establishment’s Face

The attacks on the party’s left flank might be backfiring. Just look at Marie Newman’s primary challenge to Dan Lipinski.

Natalie Shure

Culture

When We Talk About Cultural Appropriation, We Should Be Talking About Power

When the powerful appropriate from the oppressed, inequality is exacerbated.

Lauren Michele Jackson

Labor

The Corporate Media Failed to Warn Us About the Trump Admin’s Attack on LGBTQ Workers

Andy Lee Roth and Avram Anderson