The Wisconsin Idea

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With Rahm Out, Chicago’s Black Youth Demand Mayoral Candidates Side With Communities—Not Police

A community survey says residents don’t want a police academy on Chicago’s West Side. Six mayoral candidates weigh in.

Isabel Bloom

Feature

Top Dems Claim Concern Over Yemen War—Why Aren’t They Backing a Measure To End It?

Some of the most influential Democrats in the House are refusing to throw their early support behind a new push to end U.S. participation in the Saudi-led war on Yemen.

Shireen Al-Adeimi and Sarah Lazare

InvestigationGoodman Institute

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

Activists are targeting the companies that make ICE run.

David Dayen

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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

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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

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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