The Wisconsin Idea

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How Politicians Are Using Faux Progressive Arguments to Lock Up Young People

For six years, Seattle activists battled with policymakers who are pushing for a costly new youth jail and court project.

Dean Spade

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The Historic Korean Peace Declaration Was Made Possible By Social Movements, Not Trump

A conversation with peace activist Christine Ahn.

Sarah Lazare

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The Visa Loophole That Big Ag Construction Firms Love To Exploit

How hog barn builders are importing labor at low wages and leaving local workers in the dust.

Stephen Franklin et al.

Labor

University of Iowa Faculty Are Showing How Labor Can Organize Under Right-to-Work

Daniel Moattar

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Lead Is a National Crisis: We Need to Fight for Clean, Publicly Owned Water Before It Is Too Late

Four years after the Flint water crisis began, our nation remains plagued by unsafe drinking water. The solution is a massive public investment in infrastructure.

Rep. Keith Ellison and Wenonah Hauter

Labor

Why Hundreds of Georgia Bus Drivers Just Staged a Massive Sickout

Casey Williams

Labor

Trump Is Using “Welfare” Dog Whistles to Come After the Entire Working Class

Rebecca Vallas, Talk Poverty

Labor

Arizona Teachers Are Out On the Largest Strike in State History. Here’s Why.

Sarah Lahm

Labor

Don’t Like War? Then Don’t Work! Remembering When Dockworkers Shut Down the Ports on May Day

Peter Cole