The Wisconsin Idea

LaborPodcast

Student Loan Payments to ICE Agents: Unpacking Trump’s “Big, Disastrous Bill”

Two activists arrested in the fight against Trump’s landmark legislation discuss the bill’s consequences, from student debt to immigration raids.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborPodcast

Is “Salting” the Future of Organized Labor?

Founding member of Starbucks Workers United, Jaz Brisack, shares the hard-won lessons they learned taking on a multinational corporation.

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

An Injury to All

What unites the disparate parts of a diverse workers’ movement can be the understanding that “an injury to one” truly is an injury to all.

Alex Han

Departments

An Open Letter to the New Pope

As the first American pope takes the helm, we revisit an open letter published in 1978 by peace activist Blase A. Bonpane to Pope John Paul I.

Blase A. Bonpane

Culture

Meet the Artists Confronting Trump’s Culture Cuts

As federal support for the arts disappears, these creatives are turning identity and protest into their medium.

Xintian Tina Wang

Feature

"Be Brilliant in Your Area"

An interview with Cori Bush

Ari Bloomekatz

Labor

Truckers, Tired of Being Exposed to Hazardous Waste, Call on the Feds for Help

They say the oil and gas industry is ignoring HAZMAT procedures, endangering them and the communities they drive through.

Kim Kelly

Feature

Trump 2.0 and the Reverse Racism Presidency

In a topsy-turvy world where Afrikaners are “refugees” and civil rights are for white men, every accusation is a confession.

Alberto Toscano

Pentagon Budget Tops $1 Trillion. Now What?

How annual U.S. military spending broke the $1 trillion mark, and my legislative proposal that rescinds the Big Beautiful Bill’s $156 billion in Pentagon spending and sends people $600 checks with the savings.

Stephen Semler