The Wisconsin Idea

LaborDispatch

“They’re Trying to Starve Us”: BP Opposes Unemployment Benefits for Locked-Out Workers

Six and a half months into a lockout, the oil giant is appealing workers’ unemployment, a move that could force union members to pay back the benefits they've received.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

A Sweeping Reelection Victory for Shawn Fain and His Slate at UAW

Members of the United Auto Workers overwhelmingly backed another term for Shawn Fain and his United UAW slate of union candidates, showing support for his vision of a fighting labor movement.

Luis Feliz Leon and Jane Slaughter

Departments

Hot Earth Summer: How AI and Environemntal Injustice Are Shaping the End of This Month

A round-up of this month’s signs we are living in late stage capitalism.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Podcast

Toledo Residents’ Lives Upended by Brent Industries Explosion

Host Maximillian Alvarez sits down with a panel of Toledo, Ohio residents to discuss the morning of the industrial disaster and life since.

Maximillian Alvarez

Comics

Welcoming To Burning Ram

Will we one day look back at America's giant pickup trucks as a gauche fad that made our streets uglier, roads deadlier and our world worse?

Jen Sorensen

Comics

Honorable Men

Why unseal the Epstein files when they make such a sturdy pedestal?

Adam Zyglis

Departments

Go Buy a Record

“What the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. We love to move around. And we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.”

J. Patrick Patterson

LaborViewpoint

The Three True Pillars Of American Democracy

It’s no shock that the Right and Big Tech are targeting the same three institutions—if Democrats don’t take action to defend them, we can kiss our democracy goodbye.

Hamilton Nolan

Comics

Everything Has Protein Now

A new comic by Gemma Correll

Gemma Correll