The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

Elected Officials Are Facing a Reckoning Over Their Collusion with Big AI

Across the country, Americans from all stripes are calling on politicians to dump Big Tech.

Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas

Viewpoint

9/11/2001: I Was a Freshman in Alabama, I Wore a Hijab

Twenty-five years after Sept. 11, 2001, Gowayed writes that "the hate feels louder than it has ever been, more entitled and more brazen. I’m terrified of what the coming decades will bring."

Heba Gowayed

Viewpoint

25 Years After 9/11, How Do We Build a Movement To Stop Forever Wars?

As Trump wages an unpopular war with Iran, historian Jeremy Varon discusses what we can learn from the movement that turned the tide against the Iraq War.

Mark Engler

Viewpoint

How The War on Terror Continues To Terrorize Communities 25 Years Later

Twenty five years after the 9/11 attacks and the launch of the Global War on Terror, the U.S government continues to expand its tools of repression to further crush dissent.

Tina Al-khersan and Azadeh Shahshahani

Comics

Did We Really Vote a Poop-Flinging Baboon Into the Highest Political Office?

A new comic set on Parallel Earth by Tom Tomorrow.

Tom Tomorrow

LaborPodcast

Train Crashes Destroyed Their Towns. Will Yours Be Next?

Host Maximillian Alvarez sits down with a panel of community members from Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and East Palestine, Ohio to discuss life inside a sacrifice zone.

Maximillian Alvarez

FeatureInvestigation

Found, But Not Rescued

Could migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea be prosecuted as crimes against humanity?

Cathy Otten

Departments

Betting on Wildfire and AI's Political Beliefs

A round-up of this month's signs of late stage capitalism and the horrors we're living through.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Labor

‘Treated Worse Than Cattle’

2,500 Tyson Workers Laid Off, Plant Shutters Overnight.

Caitlyn Clark