The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Electronic Monitors: How Companies Dream of Locking Us in Our Homes

These are the corporations profiting from e-carceration.

James Kilgore

Dispatch

This Union Nurse and Outspoken Progressive Could Become Iowa’s Next Governor

Cathy Glasson is running an insurgent campaign on a platform of Medicare for all, a $15 minimum wage and ending “right to work” laws.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration

In an interview, the leftist sci-fi author argues that democratic space science is crucial to saving Earth.

Dayton Martindale

Rural America

The Renaissance of Tribal Hemp

Winona LaDuke

Labor

Nearly 5,000 JetBlue Flight Attendants Just Voted To Unionize, in a Major Win for Airline Labor

Sarah Lahm

Labor

Rotten and Rat-Infested: The Appalling Food and Healthcare Conditions Facing Inmates in U.S. Prisons

Michelle Chen

Labor

Puerto Rico’s Major Newspapers Laid Off Reporters Just When the Island Needed Them the Most

Katherine Braden

Feature

Beyond Fluorescent Bulbs: 4 Things Millennials Can Do To Fight Climate Change

From running for office to taking direct action, an imperiled generation must take matters into its own hands.

Samuel Miller-McDonald

Rural America

The House Farm Bill Ignores What Farmers Want (and Farm Groups Call BS)

Karen Perry Stillerman