The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Trump’s FCC Bids Farewell to the Internet as We Know It

The internet is about to become more expensive and far less free.

Mark Dunbar

Culture

Emmett Till’s Cousin on Why Mississippi’s Flag Is Still Racist

Edelia “Dr. Jay” Carthan is at the forefront of a movement to remove the Confederate “stars and bars.”

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Feature

When Billionaires Battle for Public Office, Working People Always Lose

The upcoming Illinois governor’s race is more proof that big campaign spending narrows political possibilities and increases inequality.

Emma Tai

Feature

These Mainers Aren’t Ready To Give Up on Flipping Susan Collins’ Tax Vote

A conversation with Mike Tipping of the Maine People's Alliance.

Sarah Jaffe

Culture

The Specter Haunting Infowars

The new documentary A Gray State, executive produced by Werner Herzog, explores a murder-suicide that has become a far-right obsession.

Michael Atkinson

Rural America

Watch Live Seminars from the 2017 Young Farmers Conference

Rural America In These Times

Labor

Red Cross Is Instructing Truckers to Draw Blood and Nurses to Load Trucks

Kathy Wilkes

Dispatch

You’re a Sad Man, Jerry Brown

At the U.N. climate change Conference in Bonn, Jerry Brown couldn’t shake his hecklers.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

In the Face of the GOP’s Class-War Tax Bill, Chicago Activists Voice Outrage in the Streets

Timna Axel