The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Paid Sick Leave Bill Provokes Showdown in Maryland

Bruce Vail

Feature

Interviews for Resistance: There’s Still Time To Shape the Budget—Here’s How

Trump ran on not being a regular candidate. But his budget shows that he is, in many ways, a typical Republican.

Sarah Jaffe

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What Immigrant Rights Activists Can Learn From the Original Sanctuary Movement

Organizers against U.S. intervention in Central America offered not just sanctuary, but solidarity.

Hilary Goodfriend

Labor

How States Are Trying to End the Disability Unemployment Crisis

s.e. smith

Rural America

A Pipeline Is Leaking Natural Gas into Alaska’s Cook Inlet ... and Has Been for 3 Months

Lorraine Chow

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Our Cotton Colonies

We follow a T-shirt’s supply chain from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh to your local mall—and back again.

Meta Krese, Photography by Jošt Franko

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How the Left Is Using Tea Party Tactics To Take On Both the GOP and the Democratic Establishment

Organizers are plotting a populist one-two punch.

Kate Aronoff

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Resister’s Digest: Grilling Gorsuch and Taking It to the Streets Against Trumpcare

Hearings start this week for Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick.

Theo Anderson

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From the Alt-Right to the White House, White Nationalism and Misogyny Go Hand in Hand

Sexism and racism are deeply intertwined and mutually reinforcing—you can’t understand one without the other.

Rachel Johnson