Don’t let Wisconsin’s new supreme court minority steer the narrative
Conservative justices are selling nonsensical outrage, and journalists shouldn’t buy it.
Capitol Punishments
The week’s highlights (and low-lights) from the Wisconsin Legislature and beyond.
Latest in Capitol Punishments
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.
Republicans’ hatred for Milwaukee has reached an irrational extreme
Legislators are leveraging the shared-revenue crisis to dominate and possibly crush the Wisconsin right’s favorite punching bag.
Are Wisconsin Republicans so out of touch?
No, it’s the children who are wrong, they insist after another crappy candidate bombs.
A re-balanced Wisconsin Supreme Court meets a more dangerous Legislature
Don’t trust Republicans to use their new impeachment powers responsibly.
Let’s all just move into one of Gloria Reyes’ imaginary homes
The mayoral challenger offers a half-baked and incoherent approach to Madison’s housing crisis.
Milking a myth as farmers suffer
Pandering and resentment won’t save Wisconsin’s dairy industry.
Let Neptune strike ye dead, Wisconsin
There’s a lot of good in Tony Evers’ budget proposal, and Republicans are having none of it.
