The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Trump’s False Claims of Rampant Voter Fraud Draw From a Well-worn Racist Playbook

Republicans have tried to suppress turnout among voters who are poor, disabled or people of color for many years.

Joel Bleifuss

Labor

Unite Here Is 85% Unemployed and Still Fighting Like Hell

The economically devastated union is knocking on more doors than the entire Democratic Party

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

A New Crisis Hotline Could Serve As an Alternative to Policing in Chicago

Police aren’t social workers. A new proposal would stop them from doing both jobs.

Taylor Moore

Viewpoint

All the Options for Schooling Are Bad—But We Have to Choose Safety

On parents' impossible decision.

Chandra Thomas Whitfield

LaborViewpoint

What Does a “Safe Return” to School Look Like? Ask Teacher Unions.

Powerful elites are willing to sacrifice the lives and futures of millions to feed their own profits. Teachers are fighting back.

Lois Weiner and Jackson Potter

Labor

Healthcare Workers Are Leading the Largest Strike Ever at the University of Illinois-Chicago

In the face of a deadly pandemic, UIC’s largely Black and Latino hospital workforce is demanding workplace safety and livable wages.

Jeff Schuhrke

Rural America

The EPA Responded to a Respiratory Virus by Relaxing Pollution Controls

Major polluters were deemed 'essential.' Under EPA policy, environmental and safety inspectors were not.

Victor B. Flatt and Joel A. Mintz

Climate

"We're Out Here Choking To Death": What It's Like Being Homeless on the Front Lines of the Climate Fires

A conversation with a homeless street medic working to save lives in San Francisco.

Sarah Lazare

Viewpoint

The Confederacy Won't Die Until Florida Does

Election year in the epicenter of lost causes.

Hamilton Nolan