The Wisconsin Idea

Politics

Abdul El-Sayed Is In a Fight to Transform the Democratic Party

The Michigan Senate primary between El-Sayed and Haley Stevens is shaping up to be a proxy war in the struggle between the party’s progressive and centrist wings.

Danny Postel

Labor

A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great. How Do We Get One?

Workers deserve far more time off the job. But getting to a shorter work week will require a labor movement that can wield power to extract such demands.

Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon

Departments

Zombie Coins, Ghost Chains and Other Slop

Some of the latest developments in late capitalism, from a human perspective—never an AI hallucination.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

PalestinePodcast

United Auto Workers Divests From Israel

At the 39th Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to divest $400,000 worth of bonds in historic first.

Maximillian Alvarez

Comics

Trump Keeps Making the Best Deals With Iran... Kind Of

A new comic by Tom Tomorrow

Tom Tomorrow

Comics

The Adventures of Bloodless Quant

Alex Hood

Comics

Trump Is Sleeping Through His War on Iran

A new comic by Jack Ohman

Jack Ohman

Viewpoint

ICE Is Conducting a Reign of Terror

ICE’s indiscriminate violence conveys that nonwhite immigrants, lawful or otherwise, have no place in Trump’s America.

Mitchell Zimmerman

LaborViewpoint

What Amazon Organizers Can Learn From the Fight for 15

Organizers at Amazon can take lessons from the Fight for 15’s success at building pressure through a broad public campaign—and from its failure to really build an organization of, by, and for workers.

Rand Wilson and Peter Olney