The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Trade Deals Like the TPP Are Murdering American Manufacturing

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Labor

Saying Union Was a Wing of Management, Flight Attendants Launched a Rebellion on Facebook—And Won

Dan DiMaggio

Feature

Bernie Sanders in 1995: A Brutal Assessment of Bill Clinton’s First 2 Years as President

In this 1995 column for In These Times, Bernie Sanders laments then-President Bill Clinton's ties to corporate money—and lays out a progressive program that looks strikingly similar to his own 2016 presidential platform.

Bernie Sanders

Rural America

Our Daily Poison: How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick

Marie-Monique Robin

Labor

Silicon Valley Firm Learns That Wage Theft Doesn’t Count as “Innovation”

Brian Joseph

Feature

When Asked Whether He Was A Socialist in 1989, Carl Sagan Sounded a Lot Like Bernie Sanders in 2016

Carl Sagan is best known for bringing attention to the cosmos. But in this clip from CNN, he puts the spotlight on how the Unites States fails to take care of its own most vulnerable citizens.

Madeline Wensel

Comics

Magical Negro: The Gathering

Matt Bors

Feature

Exxon Covered Up Climate Change in the 1970s, But Its Behavior Today is Worse

The biggest fossil fuel company on Earth insists on finding and producing more fossil fuels

Bill McKibben

Culture

The Limits of New Dealism and Why We Need a New Progressive Theory of Political Economy

Historian Jefferson Cowie argues that the New Deal may have been a freak occurrence

Rich Yeselson