The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint
Why We Devoted an Entire Issue to Climate Change
The most ambitious climate proposal ever seen on Capitol Hill is a call to action. We need to answer the call.
Dayton Martindale

Dispatch
Hawai‘i’s Managed Retreat Proposal Offers an Early Model for Relocation—At a Cost
As seas rise, middle- and working-class Hawaiians worry they’ll be forced out of their homes, while the rich rebuild.
Alex Lubben

Labor
Why the NCAA Should Pay Student-Athletes—And Let Them Unionize
Brian Wakamo

Viewpoint
Chicago’s Elections Brought a Lot of Good News for Progressives—and Democratic Socialists
Rahm Emanuel is gone, and a new crop of left-wing city council members is coming to power.
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Labor
Education Privatizers Have Gone Global. So Must We If We Want to Stop Them.
Christian Addai-Poku and Michael Galant

Labor
Fighting Against Racism—And For a Better Paycheck—On the Docks
Shaun Richman

Culture
We Were Against ICE Before It Existed
The criminalization of immigrants goes back well before ICE’s inception.
In These Times Editors

Viewpoint
The Case for Using Ranked Choice Voting in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primaries
To make the 2020 primary campaign more democratic, we should demand a system that takes all voter preferences into account. That system is ranked choice voting.
Adam Eichen

Feature
Filing Your Taxes Is Already Difficult. The House Just Passed a Bill That Keeps It That Way Forever.
The new bill could keep H&R Block and Intuit’s profits high—while keeping your taxes complicated to file.
Elizabeth Zach
