The Wisconsin Idea

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Donald Trump May Have Won—But This Is No Right-Wing Revolution

What the data can tell us on what went wrong, and how to move forward.

Mike Davis

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“The Death of the Optimism of an Entire Generation”: College Students React to Trump’s Election

Millennials—who overwhelmingly voted for Hillary Clinton—had a range of reactions, from despair to defiance.

Olivia Adams

Rural America

A Message from Standing Rock to President Obama

Rural America In These Times

Rural America

New Research Shows Immigrants Working in Rural America are More Likely to Live in Poverty

Alex McLeese

Labor

Think It’s Tough for Labor Now? Just Wait Until Trump Takes Office in January

Moshe Z. Marvit

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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