The Wisconsin Idea

DispatchCulture

This Chicago Nightclub is Reimagining Safety Through Community Care

"What's a bigger liability? People using substances … or somebody dying from an overdose in your bathroom when you could have had something to prevent that overdose?”

Sonal Soni

LaborViewpoint

The UAW Strike Points the Way To a Different Vision of Economic Life

From its novel strategy to unprecedented contract wins, the United Auto Workers strike made history. The walkout suggests a broader revival of class struggle and workplace democracy.

Nick French

ViewpointPalestineThe Right-Wing Issue

Israel’s Brutality Is Stoking the Imagination of India's Far Right

As the genocide in Gaza continues, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking notes.

Aparna Gopalan

LaborPalestine

The Labor Movement's History of Backing Israel—and the Changing Climate Amid the War on Gaza

The U.S. labor movement has a decades-long history of supporting Israel wholeheartedly, punctuated by moments of pro-Palestine actions by rank-and-file activists. As Israel wages its war on Gaza, those pro-Palestine moments are becoming increasingly common.

Jeff Schuhrke

Hundreds of people of different backgrounds stand shoulder to shoulder in a crowd.

ViewpointPalestineThe Right-Wing Issue

The Right's Persecution of Palestine Supporters Looks a Lot Like a New Red Scare

Workers have been fired. Students have lost job offers. Activists have been harassed. But you can’t bully a movement into silence.

Nashwa Bawab

A person holds up a sign that reads "JEWS SAY: CEASEFIRE NOW". Behind them is another sign that reads "NO TO WAR NO TO APARTHEID". The U.S. Capitol Building is seen in the background, behind the crowd of protestors.

ViewpointPalestine

Israel’s Violence Will Never Bring “Safety” to Anyone, Including Jews

We need to confront the violence of Israel’s ethnonationalist militarism.

Sarah Lazare and Maya Schenwar

DispatchClimate

Pollution is Displacing Black Midwesterners. White Homeowners are Profiting.

Black people in the Midwest are 33% more likely to receive lung cancer diagnoses than those living in the country's 38 other states.

Adam Mahoney

LaborPalestineInterviewPodcast

The New York Supreme Court Just Blocked a Union From Voting on a Pro-Palestine Resolution

In a seemingly unprecedented move, the NY Supreme Court just granted a temporary restraining order preventing members of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys – UAW Local 2325 from even voting on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Maximillian Alvarez

PalestineCultureEn Español

Carta de Gaza: "El canto de los pájaros en un momento; los misiles al siguiente."

"Esto es Gaza, una existencia amarga, en la que cada día nos acercamos más al borde del abismo."

Iman Al-Haj