The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Cultural Preservation as Resistance

A tribute concert for the late Lebanese artist Ziad Rahbani celebrates SWANA creativity and liberation.

Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel

InterviewClimate

The Overshoot Presidency and the State of Climate Politics

Scholars Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on how tech fixes to the climate crisis delay the confrontation with fossil capital.

Alberto Toscano

LaborPodcast

Facing Unprecedented Labor Violations, Starbucks Workers Overwhelmingly Agree to Strike Indefinitely

Unfair wages, chronic understaffing and hundreds of ULPs have led to a Starbucks Workers United super-majority vote to strike.

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

Why is Mainstream Media Ignoring Overtly Racist Attacks on Mamdani from Congressional Republicans?

Non-stop Islamophobic vitriol, threats of deportation, and virtually no coverage from CNN, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or The Washington Post.

Adam Johnson

Palestine

This Is What Genocide Looks Like When Silicon Valley Writes the Brochure

Corporate, tech oligarchs are providing the infrastructure for and profiting off genocide in Gaza. But accountability is closer than you think.

Ramah Kudaimi and Evan Sutton

PalestinePodcast

“I Dream of Seeing My Country Free and Safe.”

Mohammed Abutawila gave Working People an on-the-ground update from Gaza a month after the supposed ceasefire began.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Starbucks Workers Have Launched a Nationwide Strike and Consumer Boycott of the Coffee Chain

As its workers fight for a living wage and demand that the company address hundreds of labor violation complaints, Starbucks Workers United says it’s prepared for the “biggest and longest” strike in the company’s history.

Stephen Prager

Viewpoint

Trump’s Kill Zone in the Caribbean Is an Escalation of the Never-ending U.S. Drug War

The strikes on boats near Venezuela mark a new phase in a murderous war on Latin America that has been waged by 10 U.S. presidents.

Greg Grandin

ViewpointClimateRural America

As Storms Displace Thousands in Rural Alaska, Federal Cuts Put Even More Communities in Peril

Warming seas, driven by climate change, are strengthening storms like the ones that ravaged Alaska Native communities along the state’s western coast in October.

Tim Lydon