Politics
Left perspectives on power and policy across Wisconsin and the Madison area.
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Richard Rothstein on our long history of housing segregation, and how communities can roll it back today
As Madison faces continuous housing crises, the author of “The Color Of Law” offers a wealth of context and strategy that could help Madison navigate its current housing crisis.
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The housing take that aged me
I went to Madison’s marketplace of ideas and all I got was this reactionary op-ed column.
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Drawing the inaccessible bus stops of Metro Transit, part II
Documenting issues old and new with Madison’s public transit system.
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Zuckerbucks and clusterfucks
A very silly conspiracy theory and the selective memory that reinforces it.
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A US Dept of Education investigation could stifle criticism of Israel at UW-Madison
A “conservative watchdog” with no ties to campus triggered an investigation over protests of genocide in Gaza.
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Republicans use milquetoast phrases to dress up the same old attacks on public education
Don’t let the presentation of Wisconsin’s “curriculum transparency” bills fool you.
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It doesn’t matter that Biden is old. It matters that he’s supporting a genocide.
The choice between Trump and Biden will be no choice at all for people of conscience. Age and “political purity” have nothing to do with it.
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Madisonians will hold a vigil for Nex Benedict on Friday, March 1
The event in Burrows Park honors the non-binary, Indigenous 16-year-old who died after being beaten at school in Oklahoma.
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Witnessing the UW-System’s austerity from the inside
Ongoing cuts raise unanswered questions: who gets to access education? And to what end?
