The Wisconsin Idea

PalestineElection 2024

Project for the Old American Century

What Harris’ embrace of the Cheneys tells us about Democrats’ worldview.

Alberto Toscano

Woman in sunglasses and Waffle House uniform holds a sign reading "We Demand Fair Pay We Can Build Lives On" with marchers behind her

Labor

Waffle House Workers, At the Front Lines of Disasters, Demand More

The 24-hour chain famously stays open come hell or high water (inspiring FEMA’s Waffle House Index), but pays workers as little as $3 an hour.

Kim Kelly

Interview

Refusing to be Forgotten in Environmental Sacrifice Zones

Ohioans from East Palestine and Toledo are still imagining and fighting for a healthier future, free from toxic waste and poisoned water.

Maximillian Alvarez

DispatchRural America

Can Native Voters Carry Montana?

From Billings to Fort Peck, organizers are working to register Indigenous voters—and believe they might shift the needle.

Joseph Bullington

Labor

Reagan Was a Disaster for the Labor Movement. A Second Trump Term Could Be Worse.

The Right has given us plenty of indications of the dangers a second Trump term could pose to labor. To see how bad things might get, we can look to another example of a brutally anti-labor presidency: Ronald Reagan’s.

Chris Bohner

ViewpointPalestine

“The Children,” James Baldwin Wrote, “Are Always Ours, Every Single One of Them"

Saqib Bhatti laments the unbearable task of parenting during genocide—from the United States to Gaza.

Saqib Bhatti

ViewpointElection 2024

Democrats Don't Need a Coach, They Need a Teacher

The choice to campaign as "Coach" Walz may be as tactically bankrupt as it is morally so: if Americans truly want an American football coach, isn’t that the "you're fired" persona Trump already embodies?

Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva

LaborFeature

Chicago Teachers Have an Ally As Mayor—Now They’re Fighting for a Historic Contract

The Chicago Teachers Union is working to use its newfound political power to win a broad set of “common good” demands while realizing a vision of world-class public education.

Kari Lydersen

Comics

Ugh, the Election. If Only It Didn't Matter.

New comics curated by two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist Matt Bors