The Wisconsin Idea

Politics

Trump’s ICE Won’t Stop Abducting Kids

Here are just some of the ways Trump’s ICE has terrorized thousands of children, like five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, since the administration took office.

Lily Seltz

Viewpoint

How Democratic Socialists of America Has Developed Into a "Movement Party"

The rapid growth of DSA in recent decades is part of a global phenomenon of voters and activists from the Left and Right who distrust the political establishment and traditional parties, and have formed what scholar Fabian Holt calls “movement parties.”

David Duhalde

InterviewPolitics

"Carte Blanche for Ruthlessness"

Author Laura Field on how Trump and the furious minds of the New Right are in a mutually reinforcing cycle of radicalization.

Kathryn Joyce

LaborPodcast

“ICE Messed With the Wrong Profession”: The Country’s Largest Nurses’ Union Honors Alex Pretti

In the wake of an ICU nurse’s murder by federal agents, National Nurses United has joined calls to abolish ICE.

Maximillian Alvarez

InterviewHousing

A Q&A With Cea Weaver, New York Tenants’ New Woman on the Inside

A conversation with the Zohran Mamdani-appointee on why she’s “very, very interested” in bringing collectively-bargained leases and renter-owned housing to New York City

Thomas Birmingham

LaborDispatch

Worker Organizer Abducted By Federal Agents in Minnesota

“It was just eerie to have to get in the car, drive it back to my house, knowing that I don't know when I'm going to be seeing my dad again.”

Sarah Lazare

LaborViewpoint

Trump’s Assault on Immigrants Hurts U.S.-Born Workers, Too

The research is clear: when immigrant workers are targeted, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for better pay and conditions.

Sarah Lazare

Investigation

ICE-Cold Cash: Private Prison Companies and Executives Have Donated Millions to Members of Congress

Find out if your representatives have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg and Ethan Corey

Dispatch

The Fake Clinics Taking Over Reproductive Healthcare

As abortion clinics disappear nationwide, “crisis pregnancy centers” are transforming reproductive healthcare into a far-right fantasy—quietly collecting hundreds of millions in public funds as Medicaid faces historic cuts.

Sonia Chajet Wides