The Wisconsin Idea

Rural America

A Big Farm Can Be Sustainable…But Only if It’s Managed Like a Collection of Small Farms

John Ikerd

Feature

A Newly Elected Democratic Socialist On How to Win in Trump Country

Ross Grooters explains how he won a city council seat as an open socialist in Pleasant Hill, Iowa—which last year went for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.

Isaiah J. Poole, People's Action

Dispatch

Defending the Land, 50 Feet in the Air

Meet the tree-sitters fighting the Mariner East 2 Pipeline.

Jen Deerinwater

Culture

Lauren Greenfield’s Look at the Children of the New Gilded Age

The creator of The Queen of Versailles on the “hamster wheel of wanting more and more.”

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Labor

The Blue-Collar Hellscape of the Startup Industry

Julianne Tveten

Rural America

Why Didn’t We Listen to this Guy?: Bernie Sanders on the GOP Tax Plan and Global Oligarchy

Rural America In These Times

Culture

Building an Alternative to Capitalism From the Ground Up

A primer on the solidarity economy.

Dayton Martindale

Feature

The Tax Bill Battle Shows the Left Needs a “Single Payer of Fiscal Policy”

A conversation with Michael Kink, executive director of the Strong Economy for All Coalition.

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Fascism in the United States Can’t Be Defeated Without a Mass Movement

A broad-front approach means drawing from a range of social movements—all those harmed by the reactionary right.

Shane Burley