Capitol Punishments

The week’s highlights (and low-lights) from the Wisconsin Legislature and beyond.

Capitol Punishments: Invitations to violence

Conventions, car attacks, and consequences.

It’s been an abundant week of absurdity, even for Wisconsin politics.

Takeaways from the alternate reality of the first debate in Wisconsin’s GOP gubernatorial primary.

Plus, politicos once again fail to understand Wisconsin’s Senate primary.

Democrats who play into asinine talking points about Barnes are doing Republicans’ work for them.

Democrats are failing to rise to the moment, because they don’t understand it.

Gaslighting from police and other institutions just compounds the trauma of recent attacks in Madison.

The sexist streak in Wisconsin’s increasingly expensive and unhinged election investigation.

Why do two of Wisconsin’s outlandishly bad Congressmen have no Democratic challengers?

The right-wing lawsuit factory is shocked, shocked, that anyone would threaten the same people it’s been relentlessly targeting.