The Wisconsin Idea

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

Feature
When Former Prosecutors Rebrand Themselves as Progressives to Win Elections
From Kamala Harris to Lori Lightfoot, former prosecutors are rewriting their own histories to present themselves as progressive.
Victoria Law

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
