Wisconsin, We Can Do Better Than Derrick Van Orden

Derrick Van Orden taunts Gov. Tim Walz as a 'clown' and 'stupid' after Minnesota shootings

The Sorry Truth About Rep. Derrick Van Orden

WI Rep. Van Orden spreads misinformation online following Minnesota shootings

GOP congressman scared to attend town hall because of the Jews

Van Orden Leaves No Back Unstabbed

The Jan. 6 Crimes of Wisconsin’s ‘Freaking Trump Idiots’

Ron Johnson has competition for the biggest-idiot prize

Your Republican Party: Asshole Hate Rage Edition

Republican mocked for sharing nonsensical post in Elizabeth Warren attack

Derrick Van Orden’s seat is up in 2026.

Other Reasons Why Ron Johnson Is A Terrible Person

Ron Johnson Wants Social Security, Medicare To Be Discretionary Spending

Ron Johnson: International Embarrassment

Fred Guttenberg Corrects Ron Johnson's Idiocy

Weekend Reading

How did Wisconsin get the largest telescope in the world?

Ron Johnson is a virus that infects the Wisconsin GOP

Mount Pleasant Pays For Foxconn Water Shortfall

Eating meat may not have been as crucial to human evolution as we thought

Bari Weiss and Bill Maher said it’s time to live with COVID. A local doctor fact-checked them.

Economist Paul Krugman explains why so many Americans are 'very down on' a booming economy

What to know about the battle over Wisconsin health care workers now playing out in court

The Dark History of Medicare Privatization

The Anti-Vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice To America

The Fed's War on Inflation Is Really an Attack on Workers

Why the COVID death rate in the U.S. is so much higher than other wealthy nations

Weekend Reading

Tucker Carlson Endorses White Supremacist Theory by Name

Republicans Throwing Away Our Money

The Corporate Tax Burden: Facts and Fiction

Milwaukee Tool's downtown project proceeds as key committee approves $12M in city subsidies

Anderson Cooper: Pretty much everything Sen. Johnson said is dangerous

SmithGroup Will Design Harbor District Riverwalk

How the Federal Reserve Is Increasing Wealth Inequality

The New Gerrymandering Scheme

West Allis is the Hottest City in Wisconsin

Kavanaugh an ill-considered choice to pen ruling on incorrigible childhood offenses

Sotomayor gives blistering dissent to Trump SCOTUS appointees who find juvenile not worthy of parole

Bill Requires MPS Reimburse Private School Transportation Costs

Why the "Reagan Revolution" Scheme to Gut America's Middle Class is Coming to an End

This Is Years of Starving Government and Deregulating Industry at Work

The 'Capitalism is Broken' Economy

Foxconn fallout: Mount Pleasant Village President says 'everything is on the table' for renegotiating local development agreement

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Midweek Reading

How highways make traffic worse
The Hoax Master of Wisconsin
The New York Stock Exchange president says the stock market is not a casino. Here’s what academic research says.
Stock Market Gambling Around the World and Market Efficiency
‘Real World’ Republicans Demand To Know Why Nancy Pelosi Didn't Stop Jan. 6 Riots
A closer look at senators who voted to convict Clinton, not Trump
Let's tell the truth about the Republican Party: It's the real enemy of the people

Weekend Reading

Wisconsin Supreme Court casts doubts on Republican-backed redistricting rules

Republicans Still Don’t Get It

Chicago-Area Billionaire Gave Millions To ‘Patriots’ Group That Backed Pro-Trump Rally

‘You Were One of Trump’s Yes Men,’ Fox’s Chris Wallace Tells Mick Mulvaney

Uihleins, owners of Wisconsin company, gave millions to group sponsoring the Jan. 6 March for Trump

These 15 state legislators asked Pence not to certify election results

Off-duty police were part of the Capitol mob. Now police are turning in their own.

The History of Wisconsin and Milwaukee’s Population Growth

Everything is awful. Here’s a Q&A with a philosopher about why cats rule.

What Alan Krueger taught the world about the minimum wage, education, and inequality

Republicans Lash Out Against New Security Measures At The Capitol

Milwaukee Newspaper Takes ‘Rare Step’ of Fact-Checking Ron Johnson Op-Ed with 19 Detailed Footnotes: ‘How About Telling the Truth?’

Why Are U.S. Taxpayers Providing Public Pensions To Millionaire Members Of Congress?

Walker: Capitol Attack "Identical" to 2011, Triggered his "PTSD"

Tiffany, Fitzgerald and Johnson are just as guilty as Trump

Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly flashed white power signs, serenaded with Proud Boys anthem during bar visit

QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Threatens Joe Biden With Impeachment

Johnson, Tiffany and Fitzgerald are Trump's stooges

Monday Reading

Trickle-Down Economics Fails a Sophisticated Statistical Test

Shirley Abrahamson was our truest Wisconsinite

Merry Christmas We Energies

South Shore Terrace beer garden opens for winter with chalets

Wisconsin Center District closes on bond sale for $420M expansion

AOC calls Amazon jobs a 'scam' because more than 4,000 of its employees are on food stamps

Deutsche Bank May Seize Trump’s Assets If He Loses and Fails to Repay Debt

Brianna Keilar Hits Pearl-Clutching Republicans With A Very Long List Of Trump’s Insults

Millionaire Republican Cites Deficit To Block Aid — After Enriching Himself With Special Tax Cuts

Foxconn tells Wisconsin it never promised to build an LCD factory

Fifty Years of Tax Cuts Didn't Trickle Down

Wisconsin Jurists Who Defied Trump Get an Earful

Wisconsin Supreme Court says individuals can determine for themselves whether they can avoid the voter ID law because of age or disability

Midweek Reading

The Gadfly of American Plutocracy
How Compass Became the Bane of Real Estate
How One of the Reddest States Became the Nation’s Hottest Weed Market

Police Association Calls BLM Protesters ‘Terrorists’

Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds Biden's win, rejects Trump lawsuit

Senator Ron Johnson No Longer Has Constituents; He Has a Boss, a Don

The Election is Over. Wisconsin Turns to Redistricting.

Democrat asks Pelosi to refuse to seat lawmakers supporting Trump's election challenges

A new California bill would require a 4-year degree to become a cop

Violence flares in Washington as far-right Trump supporters clash with counter-protesters

Everything We’ve Learned About Modern Economic Theory Is Wrong

Weekend Reading

How Ronald Reagan’s Racism Helped Pave the Way for Donald Trump’s

Senate GOP confirms yet another 'not qualified' judicial nominee

In Case You Missed It, Reagan Was A Scumbag

Tony Evers releases $541M COVID-19 relief package but Republicans signal tough path

Home Prices Are In a Bubble. Full Stop.

Alito drops pretense of impartiality, delivers political remarks

Milwaukee paid $40M+ in police brutality cases

Ron Johnson More Trumpian Than Trump?

After NY Gov. Cuomo Accuses SC of Partisanship, Cardinal Dolan Hails Decision to Block COVID Church Restrictions

Supreme Court's scientifically illiterate decision will cost lives

The Wisconsin Legislature is a gerrymandered swamp run by self-serving Republicans

Documentary Wants You To ‘Slay the Dragon’ of Gerrymandering In Wisconsin

Republican Senator Faces Insider-Trading Accusations Ahead of Georgia Runoff

'Bye-Bye, Betsy DeVos. You Won't Be Missed,' Says Sanders as Billionaire Education Secretary Attacks Push for Tuition-Free College

Michael Flynn calls for Trump to suspend the constitution and declare martial law to re-run election

How Trump Took the Middle Class to the Cleaners

Iowa Is What Happens When Government Does Nothing

'In Breaking the Senate, We Are Abandoning Our People': Watch AOC Excoriate McConnell on House Floor

Baby boomers have an average of $25,812 of debt, not including mortgages—here’s how they compare to other generations

Midweek Reading

Changes that Would Make a Difference in the Biden Administration

AOC’S NEXT FOUR YEARS

The stock market is overvalued, according to almost every measure dating to 1950

What Foxconn Will Cost Taxpayers

The stock market’s strength tells us less about the true state of the economy than at almost any other time over the last five decades

By one key measure, household income, metro Milwaukee is worse off than it was in 1980

If Wisconsin's Legislature were a business, Republicans would've already been fired

How the Satanic Panic Led Straight to QAnon

TRUMP IS TERRIFIED ABOUT GOING TO PRISON AFTER LOSING THE ELECTION, AS HE SHOULD BE

Trump Supporters Spend Weekend Clogging America’s Highways

Disappearing Data

Data show these US industries have the most recession proof jobs

The Other Tool Democrats Have to Rein in the Supreme Court

The NFL rewards men who put their hands on women

The current state of the pandemic in five graphs

Republican senator ‘personally benefited from tax change he sought’ (Ron Johnson is a piece of shit)

To Hell With Florida

Science Denial and COVID Conspiracy Theories

Vos, GOP Use Faked Photos Against Opponents

Midweek Reading

Milton Friedman’s Vision Has Failed. Let’s Bury It and Move On.

America’s real law-and-order problem is racism

Trade Wars Are Class Wars: Even More than Klein and Pettis Say

Lindsey Graham Earlier Vowed a President in Their Last Year Shouldn't Fill Supreme Court Vacancy: 'Use My Words Against Me'

In A Change From 2016 Stance, Ron Johnson Favors Vote On SCOTUS Nominee

Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration

The Republican ‘Do Nothing’ Strategy

Noam Chomsky’s Green New Deal

More Holiday Reading

Norquist Says City Not ‘Most Racist’

Trump Defends Kenosha Shooting Suspect

Trump Compares Police Shooting Of Jacob Blake To Golfer Who ‘Chokes’ During Putt

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Touts ‘Citizen Soldiers’ To ‘Overwhelm Rioters’

Bill Ackman on saving capitalism: Every child in the U.S. could be given enough money at birth to become millionaires by retirement

Civil unrest is happening in Donald Trump’s America, not Joe Biden’s

Kenosha destroyed Tucker Carlson’s narrative

Republican Senators Offer 8 Police Bills

From QAnon to Kyle Rittenhouse, the Right is Sinking Deeper Into an Alternate Reality

Stocks Are Soaring. So Is Misery.

Kyle Rittenhouse, Kenosha, and the Sheepdog Mentality

White Vigilantes Have Always Had A Friend In Police

Trump's Presidency in Seven Metrics

Cities and States Are Facing a $1 Trillion Budget Mess. There Will Be More Trouble Ahead.

White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

The Crowding-Out Myth

How the Myth of a Liberal North Erases a Long History of White Violence

Why police encouraged a teenager with a gun to patrol Kenosha’s streets
Central bankers need to overhaul outdated thinking on labor markets

Writing is the best way to discover what you think

Capturing The Police

Weekend Reading

Jacob Blake's mother calls for prayers, end to violent protests in Kenosha

Colectivo Owners Oppose Union

CEO Pay Has Risen 1,167% Since 1978

Russiagate Was Not a Hoax

The MyPillow Guy, explained by someone who read his memoir

Milwaukee Police Gobble Up City Budget

The age of endarkenment

Doctors to Ron Johnson: COVID-19 Is More Lethal Than the Flu

Record $926 million flows into controversial Chicago TIF districts, more than a third of city property taxes

The City Planners' Case for Defunding the Police
Daniel Dale On Convention Lies: 'It's Hard For Me To Know Where To Start'

Crooks & Liars Staffers Remember The Wonderful Values Of Ronald Reagan

Midweek Reading

State Sees Biggest Hike In New COVID-19 Hospital Admissions In 30 Days

Georgia Republicans cancel election for state Supreme Court, so governor can appoint a Republican

Too Big to Fail: The Entire Private Sector

Will Northwoods Vacations Spread COVID-19?

Covid-19 cases surge in some states as Americans celebrate Memorial Day weekend

The Strange Case of Ron Johnson

White House Press Secretary: Golf Is Not OK While U.S. Mourns (Trump Exempt)

Milwaukee County trending upward in counts of Covid-19 patients in hospitals, official says

Scott Walker has a plan to make everything worse

Investors Don’t Share Trump’s Scorn for Blue States

Sunday Reading

Killing to win

Yes, Wisconsin Republicans used the pandemic to stop people from voting

Coronavirus Is Forcing the GOP to (Tacitly) Admit Its Ideology Is Delusional

You'd Have to Be a Newborn From Mars Not to See Wisconsin Was a Test Run for November

Voting in Wisconsin During a Pandemic: Lines, Masks and Plenty of Fear

Ron Johnson sends doctors' note to Trump urging action on hydroxychloroquine

‘Not as Wisconsin Nice as We Used to Be’: The Divisions in Dairyland

Obama pans Wisconsin 'debacle,' backs vote-by-mail efforts amid pandemic

Republicans, You First

Conservative pundits, and other blowhards, are pushing the idea that those that may die from coronavirus should just die and we shouldn't really worry about it because the alternative is a depressed economy.

Here's an idea - Republicans, you first. Please start doing yourselves in. Just go out behind the barn, take one of those many guns you own that you cherish so much, and end it. That will be some that the rest of us won't have to worry about.

Rush Limbaugh and Ron Johnson, why don't you two start this off.

Rush Limbaugh: Economy Being Destroyed ‘Under The Guise’ Of Saving Lives

GOP senator calls on Trump to reopen parts of the coronavirus-stricken economy because 'death is an unavoidable part of life'

Shelter-In-Place Reading

Coronavirus Bailouts Shouldn’t Reward Investors And CEOs, Democrats Say

Coronavirus Tracker

‘So tired of the rich profiting from every cataclysm’

Social Insurance in a Time of Pandemic

Visualizing the History of Pandemics

A Complete List of Trump’s Attempts to Play Down Coronavirus

Trump’s Company Paid Bribes to Reduce Property Taxes, Assessors Say

America’s Fox News Problem

Why the US Sucks at Building Public Transit

11 charts that explain the coronavirus pandemic

The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff

Now Is the Time to Overreact

The Shopko Swindle — rewarding wealth instead of hard work

On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus

Sen. Ron Johnson: We Shouldn’t Shut Down Economy Just Cause Up to 3.4 Percent of Infected Population Could Die

Trump’s $1 trillion stimulus is a gamble for reelection — and a sea change for Republicans once opposed to bailouts

Republicans suddenly find a bailout they can back

Rachel Maddow Names And Shames The 7 States Not 'Doing Much At All' About Coronavirus

Four senators sold stocks before coronavirus threat crashed market

Wisconsin Now the Reddest State?

Ron Johnson: Embarrassing Tool

Claire McCaskill: Ron Johnson is an 'embarrassing tool'