The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

First Charter School Teacher Strike in U.S. History Narrowly Averted by Last-Minute Agreement

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

Interviews for Resistance: Trump’s “Family Leave” Plan Is a Shell Game

Sarah Jaffe

Viewpoint

The Entire Public Sector Is About to Be Put on Trial

The Right's assault on public-sector workers is an assault on the public sector itself.

Naomi Walker

Feature

The Historic Budget Crisis That’s Threatening the Future of Public Colleges and Universities

Illinois’ budget standoff poses an existential threat to public higher education in the state.

In These Times and Kartemquin Films

Rural America

How Chicken Farmers are Getting Clucked in a Supermarket Near You

s.e.smith

Labor

Trumpcare 2.0 Is a Death Bill. It’s Time to Fight for the System We Want.

Meaghan LaSala

Labor

Meet the Workers Who Took Overnight Buses to Bring the Fight for 15 to McDonald’s Stockholders

Stephen Franklin

Viewpoint

Don’t Mine What’s Ours

How a public-lands populism can fight Trump and the GOP.

Dayton Martindale

Culture

How the Threat of Apocalypse Justifies American Empire

A new book argues that in the military's hands, warnings of world's end become self-fulfilling prophecies.

Chris Lehmann