The Wisconsin Idea

LaborInterviewPodcast

Norfolk Southern Won't Clean Up Their Mess Unless We Make Them

“Even early on, I knew it would not be safe to go back home.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Culture

Succession Series Finale: Here Be No Monsters

On Succession and the mobility of capitalism.

Yasmin Nair

Departments

The Fight Continues Against Chicago’s Old Guard

Revisiting Harold Washington's initial challenges after Brandon Johnson's win.

In These Times Editors

Dispatch

The Peasants Are Seizing the Commons (Again)

Protesters stormed a U.K. national park, demanding the freedom to camp anywhere on public land.

Charlotte Elton

Culture

Even Breathing Is Strange: Reflections on the Anniversary of George Floyd’s Murder

A poem and essay on black motherhood—and life.

Cassie Williams

DispatchClimate

Colombian Peasants Are Taking on an Irish Multinational— and Being Met With Violence

Indigenous leaders protesting cardboard packaging giant Smurfit Kappa Group face threats and retaliation.

Tomás Ó’Loingsigh

Labor

The Labor Movement Just Scored One of Its Biggest Victories in the South This Century

In Georgia, 1,400 workers at a school bus manufacturer voted to join the United Steelworkers, marking a watershed union victory in the region.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborViewpoint

Rolling Back a Century of Progress, Republicans Are Reviving Child Labor

It might seem unimaginable that we're backsliding into the era of exploiting child labor. But that’s precisely what the GOP appears to be doing.

Sonali Kolhatkar

LaborInterviewPodcast

Southern Workers Are Building a Movement to be Reckoned With

“The South got something to say, workers here have something to say.”

Maximillian Alvarez