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Capitol Punishments

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

Illustration: Ghosts and ghouls are shown swarming about the Wisconsin Capitol. Illustration by Maggie Denman.

Capitol Punishments: High-tech evasion

The misleading rhetoric around Madison's body-camera program, and a mind-bending Foxconn interview.

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Illustration: Ghosts and ghouls are shown swarming about the Wisconsin Capitol. Illustration by Maggie Denman.
Capitol Punishments: Forever poisoned by WMC

More exasperating battles on Wisconsin's road to environmental ruin.

Illustration: Ghosts and ghouls are shown swarming about the Wisconsin Capitol. Illustration by Maggie Denman.
Capitol Punishments: The grifts that won’t quit

A busy week for free-speech concern trolling and Foxconners failing up.

Capitol Punishments: Welcome, people who hate us!

Milwaukee's perverse bid to host a Republican convention, plus more notes on upcoming local elections.

Capitol Punishments: Drawn into chaos

A tortured court decision on redistricting, and toxic power dynamics on campus.

Illustration: Ghosts and ghouls are shown swarming about the Wisconsin Capitol. Illustration by Maggie Denman.
Capitol Punishments: Please stop imagining things

Ron Johnson's cruel child care proposal and other heinous flights of fancy.

Capitol Punishments: Caught in a loop

A week of demoralizing but familiar themes in Wisconsin politics.

Capitol Punishments: Clocking out

Wisconsin's full-time Legislature goes on vacation, and Madison's vision for housing gets, uh, smaller.

Capitol Punishments: Snap decisions, no answers

The shitshow around the Quadren Wilson shooting drags on, and Amazon expands its local footprint.

Capitol Punishments: Ramming down

Wisconsin's Legislature and Supreme Court make it clear that the punishment will continue for the state's largest cities.