The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

The Police State Can Come After Trump Protesters, But It Can’t Make Them Cooperate

Facing up to 75 years in prison, 135 Inauguration Day protesters are refusing to collaborate with the prosecution.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

As Universities are Gutted, Grad Student Employee Unions Can Provide a Vital Defense

Sabeen Ahmed

Culture

Squatters’ 60-Year War Against Private Property

How propertied classes team up with the state to forcibly evict urban squatters.

Margaret Garb

Feature

‘I Must Mourn’: Frederick Douglass on the Meaning of July 4th to the Slave

These words, spoken in 1852, are relevant to modern U.S. society mired in the legacies of slavery and racist brutality.

Frederick Douglass

Rural America

Reprieve for an Ancient Site: A Mining Company and a Tribe Find a Way to Work Together

Stephanie Woodard

Feature

Meet the Activists Still Fighting the Anti-Woman Legacy of Bill Clinton’s Welfare Reform

Why welfare activists are throwing their weight behind the RISE Out of Poverty Act.

Sarah Jaffe

Labor

If Ben & Jerry’s Is Progressive, Why Won’t It Protect Its Farmworkers?

Michael Arria

Feature

What the Single-Payer Loss Reveals About the Role of Corporate Money in California Politics

The chair of the California Democratic Party’s progressive caucus explains how it went down.

Theo Anderson

Dispatch

Detroit’s Underground Economy: Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root

Over decades of poverty, Detroiters have fostered a resilient informal economy based on trust.

Valerie Vande Panne