The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

The Private Prison Divestment Movement Just Had an Incredible Week

Activists are stopping banks like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo from financing the caging of migrant children. Here’s how.

David Dayen

Dispatch

Indigenous Organizers Halted Plans for Oil Drilling in the Amazon

Sustained demonstrations in Ecuador got the government to back down—at least for now.

Kimberley Brown

Labor

Privatization Is Fundamentally An Attack on Democracy. The Teachers Strikes Show Why.

Jeremy Mohler

Viewpoint

Rashida Tlaib: Impeach Trump Now

Every day that we don’t address corruption, we are setting a precedent and eroding our democracy.

Rashida Tlaib

Labor

Why Unions Must Bargain Over Climate Change

Nato Green

Culture

Could Walmart Be a Model for a Socialist Future?

Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue in a new book that megacorporations—although odious—demonstrate the massive central planning we need.

Peter Frase

Viewpoint

A Call for Clear Heads on Venezuela: How To Criticize Maduro While Opposing U.S. Regime Change

Working-class Venezuelans have long pushed the chavista government for greater democracy and justice—without ceding ground to the right-wing opposition.

Alejandro Velasco

Culture

Street Art Used To Be the Voice of the People. Now It’s the Voice of Advertisers.

Corporations like Red Bull and Stella Artois are co-opting graffiti art.

Christine MacDonald

Labor

Sherrod Brown Is Out for 2020, But the Fight for Workers’ Rights Is Not

Kelly Candaele