The Wisconsin Idea

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

Rural America

To Save Rural Iowa, We Must End Monsanto’s Seed Monopoly

Austin Frerick