Stuck in austerity hell with Paul Soglin
The former Madison mayor's latest antics complete his transformation into a backward-looking conservative.
Capitol Punishments
The week’s highlights (and low-lights) from the Wisconsin Legislature and beyond.
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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?
Zuckerbucks and clusterfucks
A very silly conspiracy theory and the selective memory that reinforces it.
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.
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.
Capitol Punishments is coming back and making a change
Christina Lieffring’s column on the torments of Wisconsin politics will become a standalone newsletter.
Don’t let Wisconsin’s new supreme court minority steer the narrative
Conservative justices are selling nonsensical outrage, and journalists shouldn’t buy it.
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.
Reaganomic myths haunt Wisconsin’s budget
Wisconsin Republicans are playing all the trickle-down hits as they mangle the surplus.
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.
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?
Zuckerbucks and clusterfucks
A very silly conspiracy theory and the selective memory that reinforces it.
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.
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.
Capitol Punishments is coming back and making a change
Christina Lieffring’s column on the torments of Wisconsin politics will become a standalone newsletter.
Don’t let Wisconsin’s new supreme court minority steer the narrative
Conservative justices are selling nonsensical outrage, and journalists shouldn’t buy it.
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.
Reaganomic myths haunt Wisconsin’s budget
Wisconsin Republicans are playing all the trickle-down hits as they mangle the surplus.
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.