The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

From Company Town to Rebel City: Richmond, California Shows How Progressives Can Win

Shaun Richman

Labor

Labor Has a Narrow Window To Build Power Before Trump’s Agenda Takes Hold

Dave Kamper

Rural America

Rural America Still Waiting to See Who Trump Taps for Secretary of Agriculture

Dan Flynn

Feature

Democrats: It’s Time for a Contract with American Workers

Republicans are in power because they had a plan. The Left needs one, too.

Theo Anderson

Culture

What We Can Learn From the Pacifist Movement Against World War I

Although they failed to keep us out of the war, they organized effectively in conditions frighteningly similar to our own.

Theo Anderson

Rural America

FDA Grants Additional Time for Citizens (and Food Companies) to Define ‘Healthy’

Coral Beach

Feature

How Corporations Rig the Rules and Crush Dissent

A new book by Gordon Lafer shines a spotlight on the super-rich.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Slavoj Zizek: Lessons From the “Airpocalypse”

On China's smog problem and the ecological crisis.

Slavoj Žižek

Viewpoint

Diane Ravitch: Trump’s Nominee for Secretary of Education Could Gut Public Ed

Billionaire Betsy DeVos will be great for private, religious and charter schools—and bad news for students and teachers.

Diane Ravitch