The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans’ All-Charter School System Has Proven a Failure

Test scores tell one story, and residents tell another. A three-month investigation by In These Times reveals the cracks in the education reform narrative.

Colleen Kimmett

Labor

IKEA Says It’s “Socially Responsible.” So Why Are Workers Accusing It of Union-Busting?

Bruce Vail

Labor

Behind the Business Attire, Many Bank Workers Earn Poverty Wages

Mario Vasquez

Labor

UE Organizing Director Bob Kingsley Prepares To Step Down, But Lefty Union Shows No Signs of Slowing

Bruce Vail

Labor

Home Care Workers Could Soon See a Major Raise In Their Wages

David Moberg

Feature

Appalachia’s Coal Industry is Collapsing—But the Mountains Aren’t Coming Back

The fall of West Virginia's coal mono-industry leaves the area without its peaks and forests. Only an uncertain future remains.

Laura Gottesdiener

Labor

‘The Teacher Shortage’ Is No Accident—It’s the Result of Corporate Education Reform Policies

Kevin Prosen

Labor

McDonald’s Workers Take Fight for $15 to Brazil, Accuse Company of “Cannibal Capitalism”

David Moberg

Rural America

Rural Spain: The Challenge for Podemos, the Country’s New Left

Tomás de León Sotelo