The Wisconsin Idea

Rural America

Foreign Control of U.S. Farmland has Recently Doubled, And the USDA Doesn’t Know Who Owns What

Johnathan Hettinger

Labor

Robert Reich: Trump and the GOP’s New Tax Plan Is a Giant Gift to the 1%

Robert Reich

Feature

Puerto Rico’s Isolated Mountain Communities Are Rapidly Running Out of Food And Water

The federal, national and municipal governments have still not cleared the way into at least nine neighborhoods in Utuado, the third largest municipality in Puerto Rico.

Eliván Martínez Mercado

Labor

The Left Needs Its Own Shock Doctrine for Puerto Rico

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

If the Left Wants to Win Elections, It Should Heed the Lessons of This Progressive Third Party

Left groups engaging in electoral politics today can learn from the trials, errors and successes of the Working Families Party.

Sam Lewis and Luke Elliott-Negri

Feature

The Anti-Trump Resistance Must Not Fall Into the “Good” Vs. “Bad” Immigrant Trap

With renewed focus on the DREAM Act it's important that any immigration reform benefit all undocumented people.

Organized Communities Against Deportations

Dispatch

When Green Jobs Come at the Expense of Unions

A declining Rust Belt town turned to wind power—and away from organized labor.

Yana Kunichoff

Rural America

A Rural Progressive Platform: To Fix Stuff Democrats Have to Stop Being Stupid

Anthony Flaccavento

Feature

The Movement for Single Payer Has Transformed the Healthcare Fight. The CNN Debate Was Proof.

During CNN’s Monday night debate about the Affordable Care Act, it became clear that progressives have set the terms of discussion.

Theo Anderson