The Wisconsin Idea

Labor

Fast Food Workers: Thanks for the Raise, McDonald’s, But We Said $15 an Hour, Not $10

David Moberg

Labor

Over 40 Former UNITE HERE Staff, Volunteers Rebuke Union for Endorsing Rahm Emanuel

Micah Uetricht

Rural America

Firing Big Green: Are National Environmental Groups Really Serving the People?

Thomas Linzey

Feature

The Two Competing Visions for the Future of the Democratic Party

A change within the Democratic Party toward fairness and equality for the middle class has to start at the top.

David Sirota

Labor

Panama’s Dockworkers Fight Poverty Wages—With Support From American Unionists

David Bacon

Feature

When Rahm Emanuel Said Executing a Developmentally Disabled Man Was “OK”

As a staffer for Bill Clinton, Emanuel allegedly told a colleague that if the polls said voters were in favor of killing a mentally incapacitated man, so was he.

Rick Perlstein

Feature

A Turning Point for Chinese Workers?

Amid a wave of strikes, hopes for lasting workplace reforms

Chris Rhomberg

Feature

Whither Argumentation?: A Response to Louis Nayman

Every direct reference to the exclusive right of one group, based on its mythic and historical past, is a precursor to a justification of brutal power, a version of “might is right.”

Slavoj Žižek

Labor

Workers Say the Fight for 15 Isn’t Just About Raises—It’s a Fight for Meaning in Their Lives

David Moberg