Khary Penebaker: On casting Wisconsin’s Electoral College votes for the first Black female Vice President
In Wisconsin and across the country, 538 members of the Electoral College met on December 14 to cast their votes for president — officially awarding President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris their 306 earned electoral college votes. But many of...
Wisconsin joins Electoral College in casting votes for Joe Biden to finalize his win as next president
Wisconsin’s 10 presidential electors cast their votes for President-elect Joe Biden on December 14, taking one of the final state-level procedural steps in a tumultuous election year. The 10 Democratic presidential electors met at the state Capitol Building at noon,...
Political polarization stirs fear in cities like Kenosha as Wisconsin’s majority population becomes less White
By John M. Eason, Associate Professor of Sociology; Benny Witkovsky, PhD Candidate; Chloe Haimson, PhD Candidate; Jungmyung Kim, PhD Candidate; University of Wisconsin-Madison Kenosha, Wisconsin, became a national byword for racial unrest when protests in August...
Victimization of the vulnerable: An American love of patriarchal violence at every level of society
Content Warning: This story includes brief descriptions of sexual abuse. On the night of November 8, 2016, I sat on my sofa, excited to watch the first woman, Hillary Clinton, be elected president of the United States. But instead, I cringed as more states turned red...
Lame Duck President: The clock is ticking on how much damage Trump can still do before leaving office
Some of the mayhem that will follow Donald Trump losing the presidential election is already known. America exited the Paris climate agreement. The coronavirus pandemic that has already claimed almost a quarter of a million lives in America will worsen. Trump has...
An Attack on Black voters: Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge says Trump’s election lawsuit “smacks of Racism”
Liberal justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court grilled an attorney for President Donald Trump’s campaign during oral arguments on December 12, with one calling the president’s lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s election results racist and...
The Foxconn factory that fizzled: Officials waged a dirty war to demolish the homes of their constituents
In Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, families were forced out for a huge hi-tech plant – but three years later, it still has not been built. When Sean McFarlane recently returned to the site where his lifelong home was demolished, he found in its place a retention pond and...
Audit finds Foxconn could get tax credits for work done outside Wisconsin while in breach of contract
The state’s Legislative Audit Bureau is recommending the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. (WEDC) make several changes to how it oversees Foxconn’s tax credit program when it comes to employees. While the Taiwanese tech giant has yet to actually receive any state...
GOP lawmakers hold sham hearings to invalidate Wisconsin votes but do nothing to ease pandemic pain
Unable to dictate election results with their gerrymandering voter maps in November, Wisconsin Republicans called for changes to election laws and made broad allegations of fraud and misconduct without offering any proof. About two hours into a joint legislative...
Wisconsin GOP official faces backlash after telling his party to stop trafficking in election conspiracies
Knowing he would probably face fierce criticism, Rohn Bishop raised a dissenting voice while some of his fellow conservatives argued in favor of invalidating votes in Wisconsin. In a November 21 post on Twitter, Bishop said he had spent the past decade refuting claims...
Trump-nominated judge considers unprecedented Wisconsin lawsuit to invalidate state’s votes
The judge hearing President Donald Trump’s federal lawsuit seeking to overturn Wisconsin’s November election said on December 10 that such a move would be without precedent in U.S. history. The comments were the latest example of a skeptical tone struck by...
Coronavirus skeptics and their denial of any danger has helped kill a thousand Wisconsinites in 21 days
Some Wisconsinites downplay the severity of COVID-19, spurning masks and vaccinations and inhibiting efforts to contain the pandemic. Dan trusts practically nothing the media and medical establishments say about the COVID-19 pandemic. He considers the threat...
