The history of gerrymandering in Wisconsin is almost as twisted as a gerrymandered map can be, but former Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Tim Cullen traces what he calls the “abuse of power” practice in Wisconsin back to Territorial Days in this excerpt from his new Little Creek Press history, “Wisconsin Gerrymandering: The Fight for Permanent Fair Maps and Why it Matters.”

In this episode of the MacIver Report, time travel with the MacIver staff to Nov. 6th, where Kamala Harris just won the presidency. How did this happen? What did Republicans get wrong? Can this future be avoided?

Harris, with a look to the future: “With this election, our nation has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive battles of the past.”

From recent personal experience, I can confirm that the ACA is a “really big deal” because it saved my life and protected my future.

The bill is being presented as a winning option for the US economy, but small businesses will be the biggest losers while large retailers stand to gain the most.

This former Republican member of Congress who represented my boyhood district around Rockford, Illinois., and whom I first met in a 2021 interview, told the big national audience that not only is Trump unfit to be president again, but that Democrats are just as patriotic as Republicans and independents.

The Democratic National Convention was extraordinary. The Democratic Party emerged energetic, united and flush with funds and volunteers. The party is determined to fight for economic security, freedom, the Constitution and national security.

Dems remind nation of the joy of service.

Republicans will wonder how they could have let a winnable election slip through their fingers.

Former President Bill Clinton’s claim at the Democratic convention that since the end of the Cold War Democratic presidents had created 50 million jobs to the Republican presidents’ 1 million sent the fact checkers scurrying.

arris was born in 1964 in California, where her parents had met and married as graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley. Eventually, however, Harris would spend his a portion of her childhood in the city that was once known as “the Berkeley of the Midwest.”

Dear media, real pro-Trump Taylor Swift fans do exist.

Her words were stirring. Now Kamala Harris needs to back speech rhetoric with details.

I plan to amend the bill to explicitly state that nothing in the legislation should be construed to change or modify any existing treaty obligation.

Inflation is a very simple concept and yet almost everyone gets its wrong. This misunderstanding is the result of a concerted effort to confuse the public and prevent blame from being assigned to those responsible for its creation.

The women’s liberation movement had a bevy of female writers whose works created shifts in political and social circles alike. Here are five books by authors I found worthwhile.