The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

The Case for Opening Our Borders

Democrats cannot have it both ways. If you oppose jailing and exiling people for crossing an invisible line, you must be in favor of significantly opening our borders. Fortunately, that’s fine.

Brianna Rennix

Labor

“We Demand Food for Thought”: UIC Grad Workers On Strike for Living Wages and Respect

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Labor

6 Years After Rana Plaza Collapse, an Accord to Improve Bangladesh’s Worker Safety Is in Jeopardy

Michelle Chen

Viewpoint

Does Medicare for All Mean Abolishing Insurance Companies?

Two experts debate.

Natalie Shure and Max B. Sawicky

Dispatch

Brazil’s Labor Unions Prepare for War with Far-Right President Jair Bolsanaro

Bolsanaro has lowered the minimum wage, dismantled labor law enforcement and is threatening pension cuts.

Michael Fox

Labor

When Sex Workers Do the Labor of Therapists

Carrie Weisman

Labor

What It Will Take to Build Union Support for the Green New Deal—Despite the AFL-CIO

Sarah Lazare

Labor

Your Favorite Podcast May Soon Be Union as Gimlet Media Becomes First in the Industry to Organize

Julianne Tveten

Dispatch

Tiffany Cabán—A Queer, Millennial, DSA-Backed Latina—Has Made History in Queens

Meet Tiffany Cabán, the 31-year-old queer Latina public defender who earned Queens DSA’s endorsement.

Douglas Grant