The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Sorry To Bother You Is the Anti-Capitalist Black Comedy We’ve Been Waiting For

Boots Riley’s new film shows how black liberation and labor politics are enmeshed. And it’s funny.

Lauren Michele Jackson

Feature

Calls to Abolish ICE Were Everywhere at the Massive March Against Immigrant Family Detention

As tens of thousands took to the streets this weekend, many marchers joined the growing demand to defund and dismantle ICE.

Grace Dixon

Labor

A Nationwide Campaign to Take Back Cities From the Corporations That Rule Them

Bryce Covert

Feature

The Left Just Won Big in Mexico

Andrés Manuel López Obrador won on a promise to reverse the disastrous policies of privatization and rampant corruption that have dominated Mexican politics for decades.

Jeff Abbott

Feature

How Corporations Plan To Use Janus To Turn Workers Against Their Own Unions

A union buster may be coming to your door.

Chris Brooks

Dispatch

How Portland Occupiers Shut Down ICE

Protesters kept the facility closed for 10 days. Although federal police reopened it June 28, occupiers say, "The camp is not going anywhere."

Arun Gupta

Feature

The Biggest Lesson from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Win? Run on Democratic Socialism.

The 28-year-old Latina scored the biggest upset of 2018 by rejecting Democratic Party orthodoxy and running on a laser-focused message of economic justice. If other candidates want to win, they should follow her lead.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature

How the Left Can Seize the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has become a political body, and after the announcement of Justice Kennedy’s retirement, it’s up to the Democrats to take it back. Here’s how.

Marc Daalder

Labor

Low Wages Are Driving a Shortage of Care Providers. Now Elders and the Disabled Face a Crisis.

s.e. smith