The Wisconsin Idea
Election 2024
In States Across the Country, Voters Chose to Take On Inequality
In the 2024 election, voters passed ballot initiatives to tax the rich, fund long term care and provide paid leave.
Sarah Anderson
LaborPodcast
Seven Unions Demand An End to US Military Aid to Israel
As the genocide of Palestinians continues, millions of American workers called for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the US-backed siege of Gaza.
Maximillian Alvarez and Mel Buer
Consolidation Threatens to Rip ‘Service’ Out of Postal Service
Unlike other public services that are perennially on the chopping block, USPS already gets zero tax dollars. Yet a string of right-wing politicians, Donald Trump among them, have called for privatizing it.
Alexandra Bradbury
Election 2024
Trump Is Planning a Presidency of, by, and for the Rich
Now that the “pro-worker” GOP led by Donald Trump holds the reins of government, what does it plan to do? A program of handouts for big business and austerity for the rest of us.
Branko Marcetic
LaborPodcast
A Microsoft AI Data Center Saps Water From A Small Mexican Town
After decades fighting against water bottling and beer companies, rural communities in Mexico are now also having to compete against Big Tech for water.
Maximillian Alvarez
LaborPodcast
After Cornell Cracked Down on Pro-Palestinian Activism, its Graduate Student Union Fought Back
Members of Cornell's Graduate Student Union stand in solidarity with Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. candidate and student protestor who was suspended after pressuring the University to divest from Israel.
Maximillian Alvarez
Culture
"Five Times Daily, They Count Us As Cattle"
Two poems on incarceration.
PHILLIP VANCE SMITH, II
Election 2024
Trump's Planned Immigrant Purge Sends Stagnant Private Prison Stocks Soaring
"The GEO Group was built for this unique moment ... and the opportunity that it will bring," said the firm's chair.
Brett Wilkins
ViewpointElection 2024
What Lesson Should the Dems Take From the 2024 Election? Return to the Working Class
The party should use this inflection point to shift ground—from being the party of well-off college graduates, big corporations, and vacuous “centrism”—to an anti-establishment party ready to shake up the system on behalf of the vast majority of Americans.
Robert Reich
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