The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Bernie Sanders Is Drawing Massive Crowds Around the Country—No Big Deal, Says Washington Post

Mainstream commentators are insistent that the outpouring of enthusiasm for Sanders' progressive vision is meaningless.

Michael Tkaczevski

Labor

NLRB Declines To Rule On Northwestern Football Players’ Union, Setting Back Player Organizing

David Moberg

Labor

Workers Are Losing Manufacturing Jobs Because of Policy, Not NYT’s Mysterious “Tectonic Forces”

Dean Baker

Feature

Noam Chomsky: The Real ‘Grave Threat’ to World Peace Isn’t Iran—It’s the U.S.

The longtime leftist intellectual on the absurdity of American opposition to the Iran deal.

Noam Chomsky

Rural America

The Myth of Community Rights: Self-Governance has a Corporate Ceiling

Thomas Linzey

Labor

Uber’s Attempt To Silence Its Drivers May Have Just Backfired

Clark Taylor

Labor

How the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Keeps Working People Poor and Destroys the Environment

Simon Swartzman

Culture

Who’s Behind the Smithsonian Museum’s $63 Million Ode to American Capitalism?

Just who you would think.

Chris Lehmann

Labor

China’s Currency Devaluation Protected Its Workers—Something the U.S. Doesn’t Bother With

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President