The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

Mr. Robot Is the Anti-Capitalist TV Show We’ve Been Waiting For

By placing class warfare front and center, Mr. Robot makes socialism a vibrant force again in popular culture, its aims urgent and compelling.

Brian Cook

Labor

Duquesne’s NLRB Filing Reads as a Brazen Threat To Adjunct Union Organizers

Moshe Z. Marvit

Video

ITT’s Micah Uetricht and Rachel Cohen on the Uphill Battle for Charter-School Unionization

Illan Ireland

Feature

Jose Antonio Vargas on White People, Trump and Bernie Sanders’ Black Lives Matter Problem

The undocumented documentarian discusses why white Americans—including presidential candidates—have trouble talking about race.

Karen Gwee

Labor

Why Unions Supported a Single-Payer Bill That Passed New York’s State Assembly

Mark Dudzic

Labor

Bankruptcy Judge Gives Go-Ahead for Mass Firings of Unionized A&P Grocery Workers

Bruce Vail

Labor

As Nabisco Ships 600 Jobs Out of Chicago to Mexico, Maybe It’s Time To Give Up Oreos

Marilyn Katz

Rural America

The New Economics of Plenitude

Juliet B. Schor

Feature

Remembering Michael Harrington, A Heroic Democratic Socialist Leader

The vision of the socialist organizer, who died on this day in 1989, remains inspiring.

Maurice Isserman