Commentary
All the times Donald Trump has never been a racist
In the 1970s, when African Americans who applied to rent apartments owned by Donald Trump were told there were no vacancies, even though there were vacancies, it wasn’t because Donald Trump is a racist. As he confided to a federal prosecutor after reaching a settlement in a discrimination case filed against him by the U.S. Justice […]
Dairy farmers are in crisis. Lawmakers need to rally round.
Pete Hardin, an intrepid farm reporter, had been chronicling the dairy crisis for four years when in early February he came across more evidence of its devastating impact: An estimated 32% of Wisconsin dairy farmers hadn’t secured spring planting loans. That’s what was reported at the annual meeting of the Land O’ Lakes farm cooperative. […]
Two battles for democracy in Wisconsin
At the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, two of our key issues are banning gerrymandering and cleaning up money in politics. Both reforms are crucial here in Wisconsin if we are going to have a democracy where everyone has an equal voice. And when we all have an equal voice, the will of the people won’t be […]
Welcome to the Wisconsin Examiner
As tanks and armored vehicles rumbled through the streets of Washington, D.C., on the Fourth of July, the kids in my neighborhood were pedaling their bikes, festooned with American flags, in a local parade that passed close by the home of our new Democratic governor, Tony Evers. Evers, a former science teacher, recently ousted Republican […]
ICE escalation has already begun
The morning of May 8, 2019, Paula Hincapie was taking her 5-year-old daughter Layla to school when an unmarked van pulled her over. It was ICE. The dreaded Immigration and Custom Enforcement. The agents handcuffed Paula. With she and her young daughter in the back seat, they drove her car back to the home where […]