The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

Inside the Closed Facebook Groups Where the Teacher Strikes Began

How Facebook helped make the wave of teachers’ strikes possible.

Lois Weiner

Labor

Police Union Is Lobbying To Expand Powers To Tase People Who Don’t Pose a Threat

Michael Arria

Rural America

An Informed Public Threatens Those in Power, But Our Public Is No Threat

CELDF

Feature

The Only Explanation for Why the NRA Has Chosen Oliver North as its New President

The selection of North, a known war criminal, shows that the NRA is fully embracing its role as an extremist right-wing organization.

Branko Marcetic

Viewpoint

We’re All Zucked

Tepid regulations aren’t enough to break Facebook’s hold on our personal data.

Jacob Silverman

Feature

Socialists and Progressives Just Trounced the Democratic Establishment

On Tuesday, insurgent challengers beat out their opponents in races across the country by running on bold left platforms.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature

Palestinians Are Forcing the World to See Their Humanity

The Gaza massacre is a war crime. And the United States is complicit alongside Israel.

Phyllis Bennis

Labor

From The Women’s March to The Poor People’s Campaign, A Call for Economic Human Rights

Cathy Albisa

Labor

Seattle Just Showed How to Rein In Amazon—And the Company Is Going to War

Daniel Moattar