The Wisconsin Idea

PalestineElection 2024

Uncommitted Co-Founder Says Trump Is "Preying on the Pain of Arab and Muslim American Voters"

Abbas Alawieh says he will vote for Harris "as a Democratic strategist and as someone who’s in a swing state," but is "still terrified by the vacuum that she’s leaving."

In These Times Staff

DispatchRural America

Not in Our Nursing Homes

In Wisconsin, seniors are leading the charge to protect their own healthcare.

George Goehl

PalestineElection 2024

Project for the Old American Century

What Harris’ embrace of the Cheneys tells us about Democrats’ worldview.

Alberto Toscano

Labor

Waffle House Workers, At the Front Lines of Disasters, Demand More

The 24-hour chain famously stays open come hell or high water (inspiring FEMA’s Waffle House Index), but pays workers as little as $3 an hour.

Kim Kelly

Interview

Refusing to be Forgotten in Environmental Sacrifice Zones

Ohioans from East Palestine and Toledo are still imagining and fighting for a healthier future, free from toxic waste and poisoned water.

Maximillian Alvarez

DispatchRural America

Can Native Voters Carry Montana?

From Billings to Fort Peck, organizers are working to register Indigenous voters—and believe they might shift the needle.

Joseph Bullington

Labor

Reagan Was a Disaster for the Labor Movement. A Second Trump Term Could Be Worse.

The Right has given us plenty of indications of the dangers a second Trump term could pose to labor. To see how bad things might get, we can look to another example of a brutally anti-labor presidency: Ronald Reagan’s.

Chris Bohner

ViewpointPalestine

“The Children,” James Baldwin Wrote, “Are Always Ours, Every Single One of Them"

Saqib Bhatti laments the unbearable task of parenting during genocide—from the United States to Gaza.

Saqib Bhatti

ViewpointElection 2024

Democrats Don't Need a Coach, They Need a Teacher

The choice to campaign as "Coach" Walz may be as tactically bankrupt as it is morally so: if Americans truly want an American football coach, isn’t that the "you're fired" persona Trump already embodies?

Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva