The post-Kenosha polling shift many expected didn’t happen. But a whole lot did. An in-depth look at voters’ views on the race for president and the Black Lives Matter movement.

The president’s visit to Kenosha was just one more example of how Trump exploits tragedies for political purposes, using rhetoric to stoke fear and loathing.

Fox and Rush Limbaugh offer an “alternative reality silo,” Sykes says. No mention of his own show.

Who knows what the 2020 election will bring? But after surveying Kenosha, I’m convinced Trump won’t lose Wisconsin. If I were a betting woman, I’d say he won’t lose the White House.

Show up. Listen. Offer an alternative to the chaos, the division, the racism and the xenophobia that Trump peddles.

The Madison police monitor would be paid between $103,000 and almost $140,000 and the civilian oversight board members would be paid a stipend. The stipend would break with precedent.

On this episode of Badgers United’s podcast, The Flagship, Maggie Gau, chief of staff for Gov. Tony Evers, joined the podcast this week for an in-depth conversation on UW-Madison and Wisconsin. Gau shares an extensive look at Gov. Evers’ budget priorities, including the capital budget and higher education more broadly. Gau also shares the administration’s perspective on COVID-19, the impact it will have on the upcoming school semester, and the broad direction of higher education in the State of Wisconsin.

There is no “unease” with the recall effort. The answer is no.

“Nobody thinks that that’s a responsible way to carry out justice—shooting someone in the back [multiple] times,” says Mandela Barnes. “That’s beyond bad police work.”

While there are studies that show racial disparities in police misconduct other than the use of lethal force, the oft-repeated narrative that police are “hunting down” African Americans is simply false.

Wisconsin residents of all political stripes are horrified by the violence we’ve seen in our state and elsewhere this summer, and we expect our elected leaders to sit down together in one room long enough to adopt policies to address the problem.

We battled persistent myths, spread on social media and by word of mouth, that Black people couldn’t get coronavirus. I also personally got barraged by white supremacists.

Former Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch is increasing her political visibility ahead of the 2022 elections with the debut of a effort to create a new conservative agenda for Wisconsin.

Wisconsin is, once again, the center of the American political universe. And I can’t imagine a more important place to be.

Firearms are everywhere. There are more of them in the United States than there are people. They wind up in the hands of gangs, robbers and thieves. They have become the go-to choice for police, some of whom see a need to resort to firearms even when it makes absolutely no sense.

Nationally and in Wisconsin more toxins allowed.

“The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football” by John Miller is a brilliant and fun book that tells the little known story of how Roosevelt saved the game of football.