The Wisconsin Idea

LaborPodcast

How Labor Journalists Contend With a Constricted and Polarized Media Landscape

A conversation with Maximillian Alvarez, Hamilton Nolan, Kim Kelly and Alex Press on the state of organized worker’s movements, unions and reporting in the age of AI.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInvestigation

AI’s Rise is Being Fueled by the Sprawling U.S. Military State

Can an increasingly precarious tech workforce be a site of antiwar resistance?

Sarah Lazare

PalestineInterviewPolitics

The Elite 'OK' to Police Our Every Thought and Move

Adam Johnson joins Steven Thrasher to deconstruct the functions of liberalism, a theme deeply explored in each of their new books.

Adam Johnson and Steven Thrasher

Labor

Your 4th of July BBQ Is More Expensive Due to Trump's Policies, Reports Claim

“Thanks to Trump’s tariffs and foreign wars, Americans won’t find any independence from inflation this Fourth of July.”

Brad Reed

Viewpoint

On America's 250th Anniversary, Democracy Is On the Ropes

The Trump administration is attacking the foundations of our democracy—but Americans are increasingly fighting back.

Mitchell Zimmerman

Viewpoint

No One Should Be in Jail Because They’re Poor

On America’s 250th anniversary, we must confront the issues of bail, democracy and the unfinished promise of democracy.

Jeremy Cherson

Viewpoint

Socialists Are Tearing Through the Democratic Party Establishment

After New York’s Democratic primary shockwaves, there is no doubt: democratic socialism is on the march in the U.S.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Politics

Fascists Don't Know How to Party

Trump’s 250th American anniversary celebration was as pathetic as we deserve.

Hamilton Nolan

Housing

Why Some Unions Are Joining the Call to “Freeze the Rent”

“Affordable rent should be an essential demand of the labor movement as a whole,” says New York Taxi Workers Alliance President Bhairavi Desai.

Rebecca Burns