The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

Want To Know How To Fix Facebook? Listen to Black Twitter.

For years, Black people have been the canaries in the coal mine for social media abuses.

Kimberly C. Ellis

Rural America

A Revived Poor People’s Campaign Calls for a “Revolution of American Values”

Jessicah Pierre

Feature

Illinois Bill Would Allow Cops to Spy on Protesters Using Drones With Facial-Recognition Technology

Putting this new surveillance power in the hands of police would threaten the most basic right to assemble.

Matthew McLoughlin

Feature

Chase Says It’s Fighting Climate Change. So Why Is It Financing the Fossil Fuel Industry?

Here's why climate justice campaigners protested the big bank's shareholder meeting last week.

Kate Aronoff

Feature

YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Housing Crisis

Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them—and shower them with cash.

Toshio Meronek

Feature

The Never-Ending Nakba

Israel mass-expelled Palestinians from their lands in 1948. The displacement hasn't stopped since.

Rahul Saksena

Labor

Inside the Closed Facebook Groups Where the Teacher Strikes Began

Lois Weiner

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