The Wisconsin Idea

Dispatch

The Peasants Are Seizing the Commons (Again)

Protesters stormed a U.K. national park, demanding the freedom to camp anywhere on public land.

Charlotte Elton

Culture

Even Breathing Is Strange: Reflections on the Anniversary of George Floyd’s Murder

A poem and essay on black motherhood—and life.

Cassie Williams

DispatchClimate

Colombian Peasants Are Taking on an Irish Multinational— and Being Met With Violence

Indigenous leaders protesting cardboard packaging giant Smurfit Kappa Group face threats and retaliation.

Tomás Ó’Loingsigh

Labor

The Labor Movement Just Scored One of Its Biggest Victories in the South This Century

In Georgia, 1,400 workers at a school bus manufacturer voted to join the United Steelworkers, marking a watershed union victory in the region.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborViewpoint

Rolling Back a Century of Progress, Republicans Are Reviving Child Labor

It might seem unimaginable that we're backsliding into the era of exploiting child labor. But that’s precisely what the GOP appears to be doing.

Sonali Kolhatkar

LaborInterviewPodcast

Southern Workers Are Building a Movement to be Reckoned With

“The South got something to say, workers here have something to say.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Minnesota Just Banned Captive Audience Meetings. Every State Should Follow Suit.

Minnesota just banned captive audience meetings, presumably understanding that it is unreasonable to force working people to attend mandatory meetings at which their boss delivers to them the equivalent of an Ayn Rand book reading.

Hamilton Nolan

FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute

What It's Like to Have an Abortion Denied by Dobbs

Dobbs will throw many lives into disarray. Lationna Halbert’s is one of the first.

Bryce Covert

Departments

The Nakba Never Ends

Steve Askin wrote about the exclusion of Palestinians from Israeli “democracy” in 1984. On the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, his reflections are still too relevant.

In These Times Editors