The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

Diverse, Radical and Ready to Resist: Meet the First in the New Wave of Local Progressive Officials

At Local Progress's 150-person meet-up, left-leaning politicians from around the country share plans to build rebel cities.

Steve Early

Feature

Unpredictable and Brutal ICE Raids Are Allowing Trump to Rule by Fear

Protections for immigrant communities were already meager. Now, safeguards are being scrapped as the Trump administration escalates nationwide sweeps.

Michelle Chen

Labor

Raising the Minimum Wage Is Not the End Goal—We Need to Challenge Capital Itself

Richard D. Wolff

Feature

The First Priority for the Resurgent U.S. Socialist Movement? Single-Payer Healthcare

At DSA's overflowing national convention, socialized medicine was front and center.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Labor

Making Sense of UAW’s Devastating Loss in Mississippi

Joe Allen

Feature

In Genoa, A Budding Antifascist Movement Seeks To Protect Refugees From a Resurgent Right

Refugee advocates are rebuilding the city's once-strong anti-fascist tradition.

Mohammed Harun Arsalai and Teresa Vinni

Rural America

Farm-to-School Movement Fights for a Foothold in Corn Belt Cafeterias

Emeline Posner

Labor

20 Years On, What the UPS Strike Can Teach Us About Reviving a Dying Labor Movement

Joe Allen

Feature

The Big Banks and Corporations Financing Trump’s Deportation Machine

Activists are taking aim at corporations like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo for their complicity in the administration’s mass deportation agenda.

Sarah Jaffe