The Wisconsin Idea

LaborClimate

This Emerging Green Technology Could Decarbonize Buildings and Provide Good Union Jobs

In New York and states across the country, thermal energy networks are helping unite the climate and labor movements while hastening a just transition away from fossil fuels.

Sara Van Horn

PalestineCulture

Heba Zagout, We Will Not Forget You

Aya Ghanameh

Viewpoint

A Second Trump Term Could Spell Economic Disaster

From trade wars to border policy, Trump’s plans if he wins the presidency again are set to make the U.S. economy far worse for working people.

Max B. Sawicky

A group of people march down a street, one of them speaking into a megaphone. They hold sings that read, "UAW on strike" and "UAW: Stand up, en tiers, no more 2nd class workers."

Labor

Union Reformers Made Labor History in 2023. They're Just Getting Started.

A resurgence of labor militancy at UPS and the Big Three led to some of the best contracts in decades—but workers have even bigger ambitions for the year ahead.

Barry Eidlin

Rural America

How Deregulation Is Helping Turn Eastern Oklahoma into a Factory Farm Sacrifice Zone

Fetid air, polluted water, heavy truck traffic: Since the state loosened regulations a decade ago, a rush of industrial chicken farms is transforming life for rural residents.

Ben Felder

DispatchThe Right-Wing Issue

Queer Louisianans Are Fighting Book Bans—And Winning

“They say their goal is just to get rid of pornographic books, but in no place has it ever stopped there.”

Katie Jane Fernelius

A large group of Amazon workers rally in front of Amazon's headquarters in Seattle on May 31, 2023, citing the company's changes to its climate policy, layoffs, and a return-to-office mandate. Some people hold what appear to be cardboard globes. Others hold picket signs.

Labor

2023 Was the Year of the Strike. What Can We Expect in 2024?

500,000 workers went out on strike in 2023. That's twice as many as the year before.

Jenny Brown

DepartmentsThe Right-Wing Issue

Moms Against Fascism

LGBTQ parents in Southern California are fighting queerphobic hate with “a fuckton of spray paint” and “Know your Local Fascist” zines.

Dayton Martindale

Viewpoint

It's Time to Choose: Democracy, or Billionaires?

The only way to steer American democracy to safety is to wrest money out of the claws of the wealthiest elites, who now control finances rivaling the economies of whole nations.

Sonali Kolhatkar