Politics
Left perspectives on power and policy across Wisconsin and the Madison area.
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Family histories and contemporary violence collide in Solomon Brager’s “Heavyweight”
Brager will discuss their debut graphic novel on April 10 at the Central Library.
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Wisconsin Books to Prisoners goes back to square one
Prison officials have offered a path forward, but it’s not great.
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Rachel Litchman receives disability-journalism honor for Tone Madison comic on housing policy
The National Center on Disability and Journalism gives a nod to “Madison’s (un)affordable and (in)accessible housing problem.”
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Liberals defend Wisconsin Supreme Court, beating back Elon Musk
Susan Crawford won after a record-breaking election that seals liberals’ majority for several years as important cases loom on abortion, labor, and election law.
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As Trump takes the Act 10 playbook national, Wisconsin workers have lessons to share
The state’s unions look back on the past 14 years from a place of both promise and great danger.
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Wisconsin’s Supreme Court could buffer the state from federal chaos or invite it in
April 1 is Wisconsin’s chance to send a message nationally, while protecting our state and communities.
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Madison and Dane County should fund the arts like it’s an emergency, because it is
We can fight fascism if we’re willing to create refuges at the local level.
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Privatized mental healthcare won’t yield the right leader for Dane County Human Services
The county’s next Human Services Director should be a departure from a disastrous trend of privatization—not a product of it.
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Our former mayors’ brain rot is on full display
The empty convenience of reactionary centrism, and the danger it poses to us all.
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A Supreme Court race may shuffle the rules of Wisconsin’s democracy, again
Two years after liberals flipped this supreme court, ushering in a new era on election issues from gerrymandering to drop boxes, conservatives hope to win it back in April.
