The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

Of Course Undocumented People Should Have Guaranteed Healthcare. NYC Is Making It a Reality.

New York City's universal healthcare plan is setting an important new standard for health policy in the United States.

Natalie Shure

Feature

Instead of Enriching Shareholders, These Companies Could Give 8 Million Workers a $46,000 Raise

How public companies like Nike and Apple are shifting money away from workers to the already very wealthy.

Colleen Boyle

Labor

LA Teachers Didn’t Just Win Their Strike—They Beat Back School Privatizers

Barbara Madeloni

Labor

Polar Vortex Shows How Incarcerated Workers Are Bearing the Brunt of Extreme Weather

Michael Arria

Labor

I Was a Student Worker Fighting for a $15 Wage. Now, I’m Facing a Criminal Record.

Ina Padua

Feature

The Green New Deal Must Put Utilities Under Public Control

Community ownership of power is the most promising path toward equity, democracy and renewable energy.

Jackson Koeppel, Johanna Bozuwa and Liz Veazey

Viewpoint

There’s a Vanishing Resource We’re Not Talking About

Humans are losing our cultural diversity even faster than we're destroying the planet. Yet that diversity could be key to surviving environmental extremes.

Jessica Stites

Culture

How Capitalism Turned Women Into Witches

Sylvia Federici’s new book explains how violence against women was a necessary precondition for capitalism.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

How the Demonization of “Gossip” Is Used to Break Women’s Solidarity

Gender oppression shaped the notion of "idle women's talk."

Silvia Federici