The Wisconsin Idea

Feature
Millennials Are Killing the Oil Industry
Hell yeah we are.
Kate Aronoff

Labor
Black Women Have to Work 7 Months Longer Than White Men to Receive the Same Pay
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is a day to demand an end to the racial and gender pay gap that has led to Black women workers being paid just 67 cents on the dollar relative to white men.
Economic Policy Institute

Dispatch
The Link Between Trump’s Attacks on Immigrants and Deaths in the Desert
Trump's policies reduce people first to “illegals,” then to deportation statistics, and, finally, to a scattering of bones in an arroyo.
John Washington

Feature
Child Soldier in the War on Terror: The Limits of Justice for One Guantanamo Bay Survivor
The abuse of Omar Khadr shows that Islamophobia drives the War on Terror.
Maha Hilal

Dispatch
Disabled and Disobedient: How ADAPT Activists Blocked the GOP Healthcare Bill
This wasn't their first day at the rodeo.
s.e. smith

Labor
One Taxi Driver’s Story of Trying to Survive in the Age of Uber
Stephen Franklin

Labor
We Shouldn’t Trust Tech Industry Billionaires to Lead the Way on Immigrants’ Rights
Julianne Tveten

Feature
The Trump Administration Is Waging a War on Civilians In Syria
The United States is now one of the deadliest warring parties in Syria
Laura Gottesdiener

Feature
The Democrats’ New Agenda Is Everything That’s Wrong With the Party
More bland messaging and populist posturing won’t save the Democrats. The party needs to take a bold stand against corporate power.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
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