The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Let’s Challenge Corporate Democrats and Fight for a Universal Jobs Guarantee

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Opinion: When an Elected Official Goes Full Racist, It’s Time To Go Negative

How a Chicago community is pushing back against the racist comments of a local official.

Bassem Kawar and Muhammad Sankari

Feature

Neoliberals Are Taking All the Wrong Lessons From Conor Lamb’s Victory

Lamb ran as an anti-establishment, labor-backed candidate who defended the welfare state. To keep winning, Democrats will need to embrace a bold, redistributive program.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

The VA Is the Closest Thing We Have to Single Payer. Now Trump Wants to Privatize It.

Bryce Covert

Rural America

Poll: Farmers Overwhelmingly Oppose Bayer-Monsanto Merger, Call For Antitrust Division to Reject Bid

Patrick Davis

Culture

Working Night and Day, for 1,000 Years

A new book tells the hidden history of work—on and off the job.

Joanna Scutts

Feature

Trump Is Handing the State Department Over from Exxon Mobil to the Tea Party

The likely next Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a Koch-funded, far-right ideologue who supports torture, denies climate change, disparages Muslims and sounds thirsty for war.

Stephen Zunes

Labor

An Oakland Coal Terminal Is Officially Stalled—Thanks To a Labor-Environmental Alliance

Sarah Lahm

Labor

The West Virginia Teachers’ Strike Has Activists Asking: Should We Revive the Wildcat?

Shaun Richman