The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Working Night and Day, for 1,000 Years

A new book tells the hidden history of work—on and off the job.

Joanna Scutts

Feature

Trump Is Handing the State Department Over from Exxon Mobil to the Tea Party

The likely next Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a Koch-funded, far-right ideologue who supports torture, denies climate change, disparages Muslims and sounds thirsty for war.

Stephen Zunes

Labor

An Oakland Coal Terminal Is Officially Stalled—Thanks To a Labor-Environmental Alliance

Sarah Lahm

Labor

The West Virginia Teachers’ Strike Has Activists Asking: Should We Revive the Wildcat?

Shaun Richman

Dispatch

How Obama and Trump Turned Their Backs on Haitians

In a Tijuana church, dozens of migrants remain stranded.

Maya Averbuch

Rural America

A Native Coalition is Fighting for a Better 2018 Farm Bill

Kim Baca

Feature

If We Want to Support Refugees, We Need To End the Wars That Create Them

The sanctuary movement needs an anti-war voice.

Azadeh Shahshahani and Maha Hilal

Dispatch

Environmentalists Are Teaming Up With Immigrant Rights Activists To Stop Trump’s Border Wall

In South Texas, a community rallies to protect both its wildlife and residents.

Yvonne S. Marquez

Viewpoint

Should We Primary Every Democrat?

Three views on left electoral strategy ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.

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