The Wisconsin Idea

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

Antifascism After Gaza

Genocide abroad—and growing political repression at home—prove that the “fascism question” goes far beyond Trump.

Alberto Toscano

ViewpointPalestineInterview

“It's a Statement About Who the University Belongs to”

A roundtable about resistance to privatization and the corporate governance of universities with Eman Abdelhadi (Univ. of Chicago), Calvin John Smiley (Hunter), Layla Hedroug (Yale), Owen Levens (DePaul), and an organizer from National Students for Justice in Palestine.

Nashwa Bawab

Labor

In Labor’s Mission to Organize the South, Another Domino Could Soon Fall

Following the UAW's successful campaign at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant, workers at a Mercedes-Benz facility in Alabama will vote this month on whether to join the union. A victory could indicate a sea change for labor’s prospects in the U.S. South.

Mindy Isser

Palestine

"Not Mere Pixels on a Screen": What Chicago's Student Encampments Actually Look Like

Select images from one of Chicago's movement photographers of student encampments at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, DePaul University and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

LaborInterviewPodcast

East Palestine is a Labor Issue

“Norfolk Southern has not kept their promise to the whole community to make it right.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Departments

Pack the Court

The Supreme Court's far-right ideology has discredited it in the eyes of the American people. Some think court packing is one way to make the nation's highest justices make better decisions.

J. Patrick Patterson

“Abhorrent and Barbarous”: The Crackdown on Campus Gaza Protests Faces Pushback

Progressives in Congress are demanding an end to the brutal police assaults on students protesting the U.S.-backed Israeli war on Gaza.

Jake Johnson

Labor

Bird Union Workers Tell Audubon Union Busting Won't Fly

More than two years into the fight for a new contract, union members say the National Audubon Society appears to be punishing them by withholding better benefits.

Avalon Edwards and Thomas Birmingham

Feature

The Fight to Bring Chicago Home Isn’t Over

A majority of residents didn’t back the measure to fund housing services by taxing the rich—but organizers are already preparing for the next round.

Kari Lydersen