The Wisconsin Idea

LaborInvestigation

After Decades of Quiet Rumbling, an Epidemic Is Erupting Among California Stoneworkers

The engineered stone industry is worth nearly $30 billion. But the workers at its core are falling sick and dying from an illness called silicosis. Now these workers—most of whom are young immigrants—are suing manufacturers.

Kayla Yup

Culture

Iranian Culture Will Not Be Erased

Trump said a “whole civilization will die tonight.” We can’t be destroyed so easily.

Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel

DispatchRural America

Rural Kentucky Tenants Win Unprecedented Lease Agreement After Yearlong Campaign

How tenants in four federally-backed buildings in the South overcame intense retaliation and won a new contract from their out-of-state landlord.

Thomas Birmingham

Viewpoint

We Need To Tax the Corporations Cashing In On the Iran War

Across the political spectrum, Americans support taxing windfall profits—and billionaires—to help working people weather the affordability crisis.

Meghan Schneider and Cass DiPaola

Departments

The Big Idea: Guerrilla Theater

Alongside protests against raids and deportations, small actions of absurdist disruption can also prove to expose the raw violence of those in power.

J. Patrick Patterson

ViewpointFeature

As Workers Struggle, Our Political Class Goes All In On a Permanent War State

From blood banks to food insecurity, a snapshot of a country whose raison d'etre is increasingly open sadism and violence

Sarah Lazare

Viewpoint

To Tax the Ultra-Rich, We Need to Go After Their Wealth—Not Just Income

Two proposals—one in California, one in Congress—could finally do it. The alternative is an ever-more-powerful billionaire class that threatens democracy itself.

Conor Lynch

ViewpointPalestine

Salah Sarsour: A Pillar Taken, A Community That Will Not Yield

Dr. Hatem Bazian on ICE's abduction of a beloved community member who played a major role in the local Palestine movement—and how he may have been wrongly targeted because of it.

Dr. Hatem Bazian

LaborViewpoint

Voters Trust Union Candidates More—So Unions Should Run Them

A new report shows that candidates with backgrounds in labor unions can win the support of working people. The Democratic Party should take note.

Jake Triola