The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Polar Vortex Shows How Incarcerated Workers Are Bearing the Brunt of Extreme Weather

Michael Arria

Labor

I Was a Student Worker Fighting for a $15 Wage. Now, I’m Facing a Criminal Record.

Ina Padua

Feature

The Green New Deal Must Put Utilities Under Public Control

Community ownership of power is the most promising path toward equity, democracy and renewable energy.

Jackson Koeppel, Johanna Bozuwa and Liz Veazey

Viewpoint

There’s a Vanishing Resource We’re Not Talking About

Humans are losing our cultural diversity even faster than we're destroying the planet. Yet that diversity could be key to surviving environmental extremes.

Jessica Stites

Culture

How Capitalism Turned Women Into Witches

Sylvia Federici’s new book explains how violence against women was a necessary precondition for capitalism.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

How the Demonization of “Gossip” Is Used to Break Women’s Solidarity

Gender oppression shaped the notion of "idle women's talk."

Silvia Federici

Labor

New Study Says the Median Black Family Will Have Zero Wealth by 2082

Chuck Collins

Feature

Does the Super Bowl Feel Too Political? Thank American Militarism.

The staging of professional sports events is deeply political. It’s only when someone breaks character that we notice it.

Peter Certo

Feature

Will AMLO Respond to the Central American Exodus With Compassion—Or Militarization?

Mexico's new progressive president says he has a just immigration plan. But critics say it's flawed.

Heather Gies