Politics
Left perspectives on power and policy across Wisconsin and the Madison area.
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Wisconsin Republicans get briskly to work on killing constituents, selves
The 2021 legislative session is off to a predictably nauseating start.
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At Madison’s Police and Fire Commission, the deck is stacked against the public
The hiring of Madison’s newest police chief is another defeat for community control.
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It must be absolutely infuriating: Tone Madison’s top political stories of 2020
How we covered a year of conflict and civic reckoning Madison.
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A chain of death for the Wisconsin Legislature
The Wisconsin GOP is fighting an imaginary war on Christmas while Wisconsinites fight for their lives.
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Madison music study to kick off with January 19 event
The city- and county-supported project aims to examine local music’s economic impact and racial equity problems.
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The Madison area’s small venues get short shrift in state grant program
More than $1 million in COVID-19 relief funds will go to the city’s large corporate and non-profit players, not independent spaces.
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Letter from a “semi-rural” fantasy zone
What I learned when the Town of Middleton’s local politics exploded.
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Wisconsin Republicans’ vindictive COVID proposals
New proposals from Robin Vos and company have little to do with getting us through the pandemic.
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The harm of racial fraud
The events that lead up to—and the fallout from—a UW-Madison grad student’s outing for an extensive history of falsely identifying as a person of color.
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Wisconsin’s prisoner-made furniture business is still booming
Anti-carceral activists turn their attention to the state’s long-running “Prison Industries” program.
