The Wisconsin Idea

Housing

Tenant Organizer Will Lawrence Is Taking on the GOP in a Deep Purple District

To flip a key Michigan seat, the insurgent candidate is campaigning on housing, healthcare and opposition to data centers.

Rebecca Burns

LaborPodcast

Former Strikers Start Cooperative News Organization

Following firings from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers and community members came together to create the Pittsburgh Progress.

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

Cannabis Is Capitalism’s Next Fix

The legal weed boom is just the first stop on capital’s search for a new frontier.

Kojo Koram

LaborPodcast

How Communities Poisoned by Data Centers and Toxic Spills Can Stand Together

“No one's coming to save these communities. They have to fight for themselves.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Comics

Trump's Blind Trust

A new comic by Kirk Anderson

Kirk Anderson

LaborViewpoint

Unions Should Hop on the DSA Train

It’s high time for the labor movement to join forces with the democratic socialists winning elections by putting workers over capital.

Hamilton Nolan

Housing

Why Tenant Unions Are Spreading Across College Campuses

Faced with aging dorms, private equity landlords and few protections, student renters are banding together.

Lily Seltz

Cover Story

Bea Lumpkin and How an Antifascist Rests in Power

Bea Lumpkin, a daughter of Russian revolutionaries, passed away June 14 at 107 years old. A lifelong communist herself, she began making solidarity trips in support of striking workers when she was just 9 years old.

Stacy Davis Gates

Viewpoint

Co-Governance and the Next 250 Years of American Democracy

As we mark the United States’ 250th anniversary, experiments in co-governance point the way toward making our democracy actually work for working people.

Liz Sullivan-Yuknis and Anna Canning