The Wisconsin Idea

Feature
Bloomberg’s Choice to Speak at AIPAC Shows How Out of Touch He Is
The billionaire has defended Islamophobia and Israel's wars. He'll fit right in at the AIPAC conference.
Alex Kane

Viewpoint
It’s Not Just Bernie Anymore—Centrist Dems Are Skipping AIPAC in a “Watershed Moment”
Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg have joined Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in abandoning the pro-Israel conference that critics call "a fringe, right-wing, radioactive rogue organization."
Julia Conley

Culture
What a Janitor Found at a Border Patrol Processing Facility
Tom Kiefer spent years collecting items confiscated and thrown away by border patrol
Féi Hernandez

Feature
Red-Baiting Won’t Stop Bernie Sanders. The Democratic Debate Shows Why.
Moderators and candidates tried to weaponize democratic socialism to attack the front-runner.
Mindy Isser

Feature
Why Democrats Need To End the Filibuster
If they actually want to get anything done, Democrats need to kill the filibuster—now.
In These Times Editors

Feature
The Media Doesn’t Know How to Process the Fact That Bernie Sanders Is Winning
Corporate media has moved from denial to anger.
Jim Naureckas

Labor
New England UAW Workers Join Parade of Local Unions Endorsing Bernie Sanders
Hamilton Nolan

Feature
Bernie Sanders Is the Only Leading Presidential Candidate Publicly Opposing the Patriot Act
Many Democrats are still acquiescing to a George W. Bush-era policy that has been in place for nearly 20 years.
Sarah Lazare

Labor
The Culinary Workers Run Vegas. The Politicians Are Just Visiting.
Hamilton Nolan
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