The Wisconsin Idea

InvestigationGoodman Institute

Below the Surface of ICE: The Corporations Profiting From Immigrant Detention

Activists are targeting the companies that make ICE run.

David Dayen

Feature

The Increasing Irrelevancy of the Conservative Think Tank

The Heritage Foundation’s star is falling—and left think tanks are on the rise.

Jason Stahl

Labor

Retrospectives of the Financial Crisis Are Leaving Out the Most Important Part—Its Victims

David Dayen

Feature

New York’s Faux Democrats Are Out, and Conservative Democratic Politics Thoroughly Discredited

Voters in New York just told members of the conservative-leaning IDC to GTFO.

Theo Anderson

Labor

Why Ugandan Farmers Staged a Month-Long Occupation of a UN Office

Phil Wilmot

Feature

The Left Wave Keeps Growing with Democratic Socialist Julia Salazar’s Insurgent Win

Salazar won a stunning victory in New York by running on an ambitious left platform—and never shying away from challenging capitalism.

Amir Khafagy and Miles Kampf-Lassin

Labor

Why Labor Is Holding Its Applause for Michigan’s Latest “Workers’ Rights” Measures

Bryce Covert

Feature

The Test Facing Democratic Socialist Julia Salazar in New York

Amid controversy, Salazar is working to make her state senate race against a real estate-backed incumbent about vision and policy.

Nick Vachon

Feature

What It Will Take To Bring Real Justice for Laquan McDonald

Organizers don't just want Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke indicted, they want community control of the police.

David North