The Wisconsin Idea

Feature
The GOP Tax Bill Is Basically Like Throwing Gasoline On The Dumpster Fire That Is the Climate Crisis
The latest Republican scheme isn’t just bad news for the economy, it will be terrible for the environment.
Kate Aronoff

Dispatch
Alaska Grassroots Alliance Aim To Melt GOP’s Cold Cold Heart
Armed with hot cocoa and a smile, these progressives have spent all year protesting Trump-era policies.
Yereth Rosen

Rural America
A Big Farm Can Be Sustainable…But Only if It’s Managed Like a Collection of Small Farms
John Ikerd

Feature
A Newly Elected Democratic Socialist On How to Win in Trump Country
Ross Grooters explains how he won a city council seat as an open socialist in Pleasant Hill, Iowa—which last year went for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.
Isaiah J. Poole, People's Action

Dispatch
Defending the Land, 50 Feet in the Air
Meet the tree-sitters fighting the Mariner East 2 Pipeline.
Jen Deerinwater

Culture
Lauren Greenfield’s Look at the Children of the New Gilded Age
The creator of The Queen of Versailles on the “hamster wheel of wanting more and more.”
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Labor
The Blue-Collar Hellscape of the Startup Industry
Julianne Tveten

Rural America
Why Didn’t We Listen to this Guy?: Bernie Sanders on the GOP Tax Plan and Global Oligarchy
Rural America In These Times

Culture
Building an Alternative to Capitalism From the Ground Up
A primer on the solidarity economy.
Dayton Martindale
