The Wisconsin Idea

Rural America

Political Economy

Mark Twain

Labor

The Entire Labor Movement Should Be Paying Attention to Wisconsin’s Kohler Strike

Joe Burns

Feature

Chicago’s Racial Justice Movement Can’t Stop at the Resignation of Police Chief Garry McCarthy

McCarthy's resignation should be seen as the beginning, not the end.

Charles Brown

Feature

Barbara Ehrenreich: America’s Blue-Collar White People Are Dying at an Astounding Rate

Could the bump in white working class deaths be the result of widespread despair?

Barbara Ehrenreich

Rural America

An Interview with the 15-Year-Old Who is Suing Obama for Not Stopping Climate Change

Rural America In These Times

Dispatch

How One City Is Making Sure Bosses Comply With Wage Theft and Paid Sick Leave Laws

Seattle's labor regulators are now under one roof.

Jake Blumgart

Labor

Black Friday Protests: A New Holiday for Progressives?

David Moberg

Feature

The Robots Are Coming. Whether They’ll Be Job Terminators or Job Transformers Is Up to Us.

Don't fear the robot.

David Moberg

Viewpoint

For Laquan McDonald and All Victims of Police Brutality, We Have To Win

If the progressive movement can't organize itself to fight back against racism and injustice in Chicago and around the country, police murders like those of Laquan McDonald, Freddie Gray and Rekia Boyd will never stop.

Katelyn Johnson