The Wisconsin Idea

Housing

Real Estate Merger Poised to Create Several Local Apartment Monopolies

A combination between AvalonBay and Equity Residential would put close to 200,000 apartments in the hands of one company.

Rebecca Burns

Labor

Sweeping Federal Indictments of Ice Observers Net Minnesota Unionists

“I think this is intended to make workers shy away from being vociferous in their opposition to state sponsored violence.”

Sarah Lazare and Amy Livingston

Everybody Hates Data Centers

Anarchists, union activists, Indigenous organizers, and disgruntled Trumpists find themselves side by side in the fight.

Paul Messersmith-Glavin

Labor

The NYU Strike Showed How to Reverse the Downward Spiral in Higher Ed

By withholding their labor earlier this year, non-tenured faculty at New York University won major gains—and helped create better learning conditions for their students.

Peter Cole

Feature

The Explosive Growth of Prediction Markets Is a Symptom of a Deeply Sick Economy

Silicon Valley fuels them. Wall Street loves them. Prediction markets are everywhere, and ordinary people will pay the price.

Hadas Thier

Election 2026

“Shaping Up To Be a Clean Sweep": Bernie Sanders-Endorsed Candidates Prevail in Primaries

Sanders has said his endorsements are about “building a movement for the future” capable of not just taking on the GOP, but also the Democratic Party establishment.

Brad Reed

Culture

Sudanese Filmmakers Forge New Paths

Young women forced from their homes in the ongoing war are creating a new form of resistance cinema.

Mohammed Ahmed Wad Al Sak

Culture

If We Can Intifada the Poems...

Two poems from When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America.

George Abraham

Viewpoint

How Resisting Trumpism Could Revive the U.S. Labor Movement

The array of attacks on democracy and workers’ rights presents an opportunity to expand labor’s power—if unions are willing to seize it.

Stephen Lerner and Joseph A. McCartin