The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

What Italy’s “Potere al Popolo” Can Teach Us About Building a Popular Party of the Left

This party is rejecting the false choice between a Europe united under the misery of austerity, or one united under the horrors of racism and bigotry.

Valentina Dallona

Labor

3 Democratic Campaigns Now Have Staff Unions. Why Not More?

Kate Aronoff

Rural America

Why Progressives Need to Rethink the Rural-Urban Divide and Build a Coalition

Sarah van Gelder

Dispatch

Cooperative Banking for Black Lives

After facing decades of disinvestment and targeting by powerful financial institutions, African-American-owned credit unions could offer a way to build economic power and grow black wealth.

Valerie Vande Panne

Feature

Chicago’s Far South Side Is Finally Getting a Train—And It’s Thanks to Decades of Organizing

Residents hope the transit extension will shorten commutes and bring much-needed jobs.

Patrick Corley

Labor

5 Reasons Mexican Workers Would Cheer the Demise of NAFTA

Manuel Perez Rocha

Labor

West Virginia Teachers Are Showing How Unions Can Win Power Even If They Lose Janus

Lois Weiner

Rural America

With the USDA’s Blessing, CAFOs Are Driving Organic Dairy Farmers Out of Business

Jim Goodman

Feature

When It Comes to the Fake News Scourge, Russia Doesn’t Hold a Candle to U.S. Conservative Media

The panic over Russian interference obscures the fact that fake news has always been with us—it’s just been pushed by the American Right.

Branko Marcetic