The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

The Zuckerberg Hearings Were a Show Trial, And Facebook’s Monopoly Remains Unthreatened

Despite public outrage, Congress is not taking meaningful steps to break the power of Facebook.

Julianne Tveten

Labor

The GOP Tax Plan Was Sold On a Baseless Theory. Now It’s Being Exposed As a Giveaway to the Rich.

Josh Bivens and Hunter Blair

Dispatch

These Community Activists Won Bail Reform. Now They Have To Force Judges To Comply.

Thousands of people still sit in Chicago’s Cook County Jail because they are too poor to afford bail.

Alex V. Hernandez

Rural America

In Washington State, the Supreme Court Will Test U.S. Commitment to Native American Treaties

Monte Mills

Feature

Senate Democrats Offer Little-to-No Opposition to Trump’s Expansion of Syria Bombings

Ninety-two percent of Senate Democrats and Independents failed to substantively dissent against Trump's April 13 airstrikes.

Sarah Lazare

Feature

West Virginia Showed How Necessary—And Difficult—Striking Is

“It was exhilarating and exhausting. You start thinking, ‘Are we going to be out forever?’”

Kate Aronoff

Feature

Law Enforcement Has Quietly Backed Anti-Protest Bills in at Least 8 States Since Trump’s Election

And that may be the tip of the iceberg.

Simon Davis-Cohen and Sarah Lazare

Labor

Gov. Cuomo Is “Acting Like Breitbart”: Community Groups Fuming After WFP Split

Kate Aronoff

Rural America

The 2018 Farm Bill’s Hidden Agenda to Push Millions off Food Stamps

Justin Perkins