The Wisconsin Idea

ViewpointElection 2024

To Beat Trump, Harris Should Talk About Harris

It is a way to share who they are, reminding us of who we are, and why we must choose to act now—a story of self, a story of us, and a story of now. And this year, the outcome of the election could well depend on whether Kamala Harris can tell us this story.

Marshall Ganz

PalestineElection 2024

Spurned by the DNC, the Uncommitted Movement Staged a Sit-in

The Democratic Party refused the request to allow a short, vetted speech by a Palestinian on the main stage.

Eman Abdelhadi

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Genocide and the English Language

The disjunction between our political language and political reality reveals the vacuum of thought in the U.S. foreign policy establishment.

Alberto Toscano

ViewpointElection 2024

Kamala Harris Can Do Better Than This

The most striking thing about the Democratic nominee’s economic platform is its timidity. She could go much further to lift up the working class.

Max B. Sawicky

ViewpointPalestine

It's Not a Question. To Win in November, Harris Needs to Break From Biden and Trump on Gaza.

Harris must immediately break from disastrous policies that put the demands of warmongers and war profiteers over human rights and justice.

Ramah Kudaimi

LaborInterview

Union Buttons are Living Labor History

A conversation with Isaac Silver on his upcoming exhibition, Emblems of Solidarity: Union Buttons & Labor History.

Natascha Elena Uhlmann

ViewpointElection 2024

Kamala Harris Should Run on Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers

As the DNC convenes in Chicago, Democrats should follow the city’s lead by embracing a pro-worker policy that ends a legacy of discrimination and exploitation.

Nataki Rhodes and Carlos Ramirez-Rosa

And the Band Played On

Pia Guerra

ViewpointElection 2024Rural America

Republicans Will Weaponize Rural Suffering as Long as Democrats Ignore It

JD Vance is a poser, but he’s telling a dangerously compelling story about rural America that Democrats are doing nothing to defuse.

Joseph Bullington