The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

How Corporations Plan To Use Janus To Turn Workers Against Their Own Unions

A union buster may be coming to your door.

Chris Brooks

Dispatch

How Portland Occupiers Shut Down ICE

Protesters kept the facility closed for 10 days. Although federal police reopened it June 28, occupiers say, "The camp is not going anywhere."

Arun Gupta

Feature

The Biggest Lesson from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Win? Run on Democratic Socialism.

The 28-year-old Latina scored the biggest upset of 2018 by rejecting Democratic Party orthodoxy and running on a laser-focused message of economic justice. If other candidates want to win, they should follow her lead.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature

How the Left Can Seize the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has become a political body, and after the announcement of Justice Kennedy’s retirement, it’s up to the Democrats to take it back. Here’s how.

Marc Daalder

Labor

Low Wages Are Driving a Shortage of Care Providers. Now Elders and the Disabled Face a Crisis.

s.e. smith

Feature

The Root Cause of the Immigration Crisis: The West’s Legacy of Violent Conquest

The Trump administration's cruel policies towards black and brown migrants stem from a long history.

James Thindwa

Culture

Turning Abandoned Gold Mines Into Wheelchair Paths

How a motley alliance of hippies and hillbillies transformed a California mining town.

Stephanie Sauer

Rural America

America’s Dairy Farmers are Struggling and Unsupported

Debbie Weingarten

Labor

The Janus Decision Was Never About the First Amendment. It Was About Destroying Labor.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.