The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

Smells Like Environmental Racism

That stench permeating Detroit? It’s other cities’ burning trash.

Valerie Vande Panne

Labor

What It Looks like When Union Members Stand with Black Lives Matter

Chauncey K. Robinson

Rural America

Herbicide Drift: EPA’s Weak Dicamba Regulations Ensure the Damage in 2018 Will be Widespread

Steve Smith

Dispatch

When the Government Orders You to Burn Your Crops

Colombian farmers are a casualty of the war on coca.

Kimberley Brown

Feature

It’s Still Their Party: What the DNC Purge Means for the Democrats’ Left Flank

By removing Ellison and Sanders backers from DNC leadership, the Democratic establishment is ruthlessly tightening its grip on the party. Progressives should take a lesson.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

Workers Say NAFTA’s Neoliberal Foundations Need to Be Dismantled from the Left—Not the Right

Jeff Schuhrke

Feature

Shackles Aren’t “Bracelets”: Why We Should Be Concerned About the Marketing of Punitive Technology

Electronic monitors are devices of unfreedom—not decoration.

James Kilgore

Feature

White Lawmakers Are Using Alabama’s Racist State Constitution To Keep Black Wages Down

Alabama wrote its 1901 constitution to “establish white supremacy.” Workers in a majority-black city say it’s Jim Crow all over again.

Bryce Covert

Labor

What Taxi and Uber Drivers Really Think About the Ride-Sharing Boom

Teke Wiggin