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Even if an obsessive focus on the antidemocratic Electoral College obscures the public’s rejection of Trump, the popular vote has in fact rebuked the president.
Beyond the vote totals, there were so many other winners and losers.
The bipartisan body tasked with administering elections has instead spent the past year tilting the scales for Joe Biden.
The aftermath of the Tuesday election continues to paint Wisconsin bright purple. It continues to be the ultimate swing state.
Despite enough legislative victories to stave off Republican supermajorities, Wisconsin state Democrats had a fairly lackluster Election Day.
We were once again the victim of high expectations, but if you take the long view, things aren’t as bad as they seem.
Going forward, my political party can prosper from the policy prescriptions of Donald Trump without his maddening, unpredictable solar eruptions.
Raising the minimum wage is an overly simplistic way to make housing more affordable for low-income people.
The next time someone has the inclination to use the “pull themselves up by the bootstraps” argument, remember that Blacks have never been given boots like the White people they are compared them to.
DOC is still trying hard to hide information about the COVID-19 epidemic.
The numbers show COVID-19 exploding. True leadership is sorely needed.
This summer, 1,800,000 more people visited our State Parks than last year!
Foxconn’s history of promising big developments and then reneging is legendary.
Our system is strong, so let’s let it work.
As we welcome the end of this political campaign season, the next one is already beginning. If we want to de-escalate our political arguments, we can do so by putting down our devices, talking to people in person, and making our government smaller.
Like my great-grandmother, my grandmother and my mother, I have always delighted in the rituals of Election Day. So, despite it all, I headed over to Lapham School on Tuesday, where my daughter Whitman, Kitty Levake Adams’s great-great-granddaughter, was working the polls.
College voter suppression in Wisconsin, other states could lose those voters forever.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s wake up call for a new era of federal spending insanity and its consequences.
Whether this is a close election or a blow out, a good quarter of the American people are going to be shocked. I just hope the shock doesn’t lead to anger that fuels violent destruction.
The state’s biggest and richest lobby jumped all in for Trump this week, proving that its real interests are tax breaks and lax regulation no matter what the man in charge is doing to the rest of the country and its standing in the world.
Even if an obsessive focus on the antidemocratic Electoral College obscures the public’s rejection of Trump, the popular vote has in fact rebuked the president.
Beyond the vote totals, there were so many other winners and losers.
The bipartisan body tasked with administering elections has instead spent the past year tilting the scales for Joe Biden.
The aftermath of the Tuesday election continues to paint Wisconsin bright purple. It continues to be the ultimate swing state.
Despite enough legislative victories to stave off Republican supermajorities, Wisconsin state Democrats had a fairly lackluster Election Day.
We were once again the victim of high expectations, but if you take the long view, things aren’t as bad as they seem.
Going forward, my political party can prosper from the policy prescriptions of Donald Trump without his maddening, unpredictable solar eruptions.
Raising the minimum wage is an overly simplistic way to make housing more affordable for low-income people.
The next time someone has the inclination to use the “pull themselves up by the bootstraps” argument, remember that Blacks have never been given boots like the White people they are compared them to.
DOC is still trying hard to hide information about the COVID-19 epidemic.
The numbers show COVID-19 exploding. True leadership is sorely needed.
This summer, 1,800,000 more people visited our State Parks than last year!
Foxconn’s history of promising big developments and then reneging is legendary.
Our system is strong, so let’s let it work.
As we welcome the end of this political campaign season, the next one is already beginning. If we want to de-escalate our political arguments, we can do so by putting down our devices, talking to people in person, and making our government smaller.
Like my great-grandmother, my grandmother and my mother, I have always delighted in the rituals of Election Day. So, despite it all, I headed over to Lapham School on Tuesday, where my daughter Whitman, Kitty Levake Adams’s great-great-granddaughter, was working the polls.
College voter suppression in Wisconsin, other states could lose those voters forever.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s wake up call for a new era of federal spending insanity and its consequences.
Whether this is a close election or a blow out, a good quarter of the American people are going to be shocked. I just hope the shock doesn’t lead to anger that fuels violent destruction.
The state’s biggest and richest lobby jumped all in for Trump this week, proving that its real interests are tax breaks and lax regulation no matter what the man in charge is doing to the rest of the country and its standing in the world.
