The Wisconsin Idea

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

Feature

While Democrats Call for Gun Control at Home, They Push Deadly Arms Deals Abroad

To seriously address the scourge of gun violence, we must oppose U.S. militarism around the globe. Many leading Democrats haven’t gotten the message.

Adam Johnson

Rural America

Standing Rock Felony Defendants Take Plea Deals, Still Face Years in Prison

Joseph Bullington

InvestigationGoodman Institute

Behind Janus: Documents Reveal Decade-Long Plot to Kill Public-Sector Unions

The Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME is poised to decimate public-sector unions—and it’s been made possible by a network of right-wing billionaires, think tanks and corporations.

Mary Bottari