The Wisconsin Idea

Viewpoint

Brandon Johnson Won the Race for Chicago’s Mayor By Loving and Fighting for the City

Johnson defeated a conservative opponent in Paul Vallas and will take office as a strong supporter of progressive politics and workers’ rights.

Kari Lydersen

Viewpoint

None of This Garbage Is Important

Let's not spend the next two years gleefully hypnotizing ourselves, again.

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

Policing Still Won't Save Chicago

The promise to add more police is a clarion call for the total occupation of poor neighborhoods.

Anthony Ehlers

Viewpoint

Race and Uncertainty as Chicago’s Voters Head to the Polls

Salim Muwakkil

Dispatch

Meet the Activist Coalition That Outlawed Caste Discrimination in Seattle

“This is a recognition of over 2,000 years of oppression."

Saurav Sarkar

Viewpoint

The Hunger Cliff Shows That the GOP Is Pro-Poverty

Millions of people are losing essential food assistance because Republicans want to impose work requirements that benefit corporations—not families.

Jim Pugh

Viewpoint

“He Sold Our Schools off to the Highest Bidder”

A look inside Paul Vallas' history of harming public education and a sampling of the shock doctrine politics, anti-union postures, neoliberal policies and budgetary schemes he brought to school districts around the country—and world—and the havoc they helped create.

David I. Backer and Jason Wozniak

Viewpoint

Why a Veteran Education Reform Writer Thinks Chicagoans Should Be Worried About Paul Vallas

Schneider writes that "whenever I hear the name Paul Vallas, I immediately think of a man who likes to take earmarked funding and redirect it in shallow ways that produce the appearance of fiscal solutions."

Mercedes K. Schneider

Labor

What Unionized Starbucks Workers Think of Howard Schultz’ Testimony to Bernie Sanders

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was grilled over alleged union busting in front of a congressional committee this week. That's not something you normally see in Washington.

Saurav Sarkar