Capitol Punishments
The week’s highlights (and low-lights) from the Wisconsin Legislature and beyond.
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Stuck in austerity hell with Paul Soglin
The former Madison mayor’s latest antics complete his transformation into a backward-looking conservative.
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The free market will not solve Madison’s jets-vs.-housing problem
As centrists fall for the fantasy, who will end up living in the flight path?
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Zuckerbucks and clusterfucks
A very silly conspiracy theory and the selective memory that reinforces it.
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Rural districts are fair again, but can Democrats win them over?
To take advantage of new maps, the party needs to reverse a long pattern of withdrawal and neglect.
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Don’t pretend you can’t see Gaza suffering
Tammy Baldwin, along with most of the Senate, declines to do the bare minimum to hold Israel to account.
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Capitol Punishments is coming back and making a change
Christina Lieffring’s column on the torments of Wisconsin politics will become a standalone newsletter.
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Don’t let Wisconsin’s new supreme court minority steer the narrative
Conservative justices are selling nonsensical outrage, and journalists shouldn’t buy it.
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Madison’s alders are boxed in on development, but they’re also chickenshit
The failure to put up a fight against high-end development is not going to get us anywhere.
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Wisconsin’s gonna fry, and Ron Johnson feels fine
Our very rich, very dumb senior Senator embraces the end of the world as we know it.






