The Wisconsin Idea

Labor Organizer of the Year

In These Times Honors Academic Workers

For its vitality and its protection of members against repression, the movement to organize higher education received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards.

Fatima Jalloh

Labor Organizer of the Year

In These Times Honors Starbucks Workers

Starbucks workers received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards for a groundbreaking campaign that is training up a generation of worker-organizers.

Fatima Jalloh

Labor Organizer of the Year

The Indispensability of the Labor Organizer

Why the work of the 2025 Labor Organizers of the Year is so critical.

Nelson Lichtenstein

Feature

Grocery Workers VS Goliath

Kroger and Albertsons tried to merge; union organizing stopped them. But the fight for grocery workers is just beginning.

Sarah Lazare

InterviewPodcast

A Small Texas Town Takes on Crypto Noise Pollution

The massive new Bitcoin mine is part of a plan to fill in Texas’s energy infrastructure—but it comes at the cost of locals’ health.

Maximillian Alvarez

Interview

The Authoritarian State in Miniature

A conversation with author Talia Lavin on Christian Nationalists’ 50-Year Plan to Capture the Country.

Shane Burley

LaborFeature

Against Trump, For the Common Good: What Chicago Teachers Won in Their Latest Contract

The Chicago Teachers Union has long taken on neoliberal Democrats and won. Their latest contract is a victory against the new Trump administration, leaders say.

Kari Lydersen

ClimateRural America

Ahead of Fire and Hurricane Season, FEMA Moves to End a Major Disaster-Preparedness Program

In an internal FEMA memo, the Trump administration announced its plans to dismantle the government’s largest climate adaptation initiative.

Zoya Teirstein and Jake Bittle

"You Are Not Welcome Here:" DHS Plans to Monitor Immigrants' Social Media

Those deemed to have “antisemitic activity” online could be denied green cards and other immigration clearances.

Sharon Zhang