The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

Locking Up Immigrant Kids, Again

Our nation's past treatment of immigrant families doesn’t make the current situation any less horrifying—but we need it to inform our longterm pressure on the Democrats.

Jessica Stites

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The Police Will Keep Killing Us Until We Stop Criminalizing Blackness and Poverty

The murder of Harith “Snoop” Augustus by Chicago police is the latest reminder that we must hold our elected officials accountable for upholding a system that devalues Black life.

Katelyn Johnson

Labor

These Are the Corporations Behind Trump’s Muslim Ban

Saqib Bhatti and Molly Gott

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Nonunion Workers Can Save Unions. We Just Need to Reimagine How We Collect Dues.

The case for voluntary payroll deductions to donate to unions.

Shaun Richman

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Will Dems Fight the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh? Organizers Are Pushing Chuck Schumer To Act.

A conversation with an organizer from Indivisible.

Sarah Jaffe

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Left Candidates Have to Do Better on Palestine

Ocasio-Cortez missed an opportunity to push a left position on Israel. But it's not too late to change that.

Corey Robin

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It’s Time for Unions To Let Go of Exclusive Representation

Janus calls for a radical rethinking of labor law.

James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, and Peter Kellman

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What the Liberal Establishment Gets Wrong About the Trump-Putin Summit

Charges of treason and other reactionary rhetoric build support for a more confrontational—and dangerous—stance towards Russia.

Branko Marcetic

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Given What the U.S. Has Done to the World, It Should Be Letting All Refugees In

The U.S. is slamming the door on people forcibly displaced by American interventions.

Khury Peterson-Smith