The Wisconsin Idea

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President Trump Is Just What the Private Prison Industry Ordered

The president-elect's policies will help not only private prison companies but, as a new report explains, the banks that help finance them.

Charles Davis

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Fighting Trump Isn’t Enough—We Must Also Wage War Within the Democratic Party

Absent our activism, the changing face of the GOP will continue to drag the Democrats further to the right.

Shaun Richman

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Meet the 21-year-old Undocumented Student Who Called Out Rahm Emanuel to His Face Over Immigration

Luis Gomez publicly blasted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Rep. Luis Gutiérrez for failing to do enough to protect all immigrants facing the threat of a Trump presidency—and for supporting Hillary Clinton and “stale neoliberal policies” over Bernie Sanders’ campaign.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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Inside Afghanistan’s Internally Displaced Person Camps

Uprooted by war and rejected by the EU and Pakistan, many Afghans live in ramshackle conditions with little-to-no aid.

Mohammed Harun Arsalai

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After Trump’s Election, I Regret Being Leftier-Than-Thou. It’s Time To Get To Know My Neighbors.

In addition to organizing resistance, progressives should build communities that support and protect the vulnerable.

Frida Berrigan

Comics

We Can Defeat Donald Trump

Matt Bors

Labor

Stop Blaming Immigrants and Start Punishing the Employers Who Exploit Them

Buzz Malone

Rural America

Organics Watchdog to Federal Panel: Hydroponically Grown Food Fails to Meet Organic Standards

The Cornucopia Institute

Labor

Massachusetts Teachers Defeat Charter School Expansion: “We Took On the Corporate Giants and Won”

Samantha Winslow