Prospect Writing Fellow Brittany Gibson’s Best of 2020
Wisconsin
Posted inPolitics
Labor’s Electoral Strategy: It’s Not Enough to Reach Our Members
Two extensive union programs—one long established, one new—are focusing on swaying working-class voters who, like most Americans, don’t belong to unions.
Posted inWorking in America
What Happened to Milwaukee’s Black Middle Class?
Democrats will need the support of a Wisconsin city battered by deindustrialization and deunionization.
Posted inTAP
How Trump’s Gambits Succeed by Failing
Today on TAP: The violence story kept real issues out of the headlines.
Posted inTAP
Trump: Campaigning, or Crossing State Lines to Incite a Riot?
Today on TAP: The president goes to Kenosha
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A Frustrating, Dangerous Election Day in Wisconsin
Countless voters are disenfranchised as voting is forced to be held in the middle of a pandemic.
Posted inTAP
GOP Justices Decree Capital Punishment for Voting
Today on TAP: The outrageous Wisconsin primary decisions
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Amazon’s Friend Network
Also, the shame of Wisconsin, and Wells Fargo’s pandemic lobbying. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for April 7, 2020.
Posted inPolitics
Wisconsin Improbably Still Planning In-Person Voting Next Week
The presidential primary, for now, will go forward on April 7, despite the coronavirus outbreak.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin: Understanding Some Key Demographic Differences
Dan Balz’s lengthy article in The Washington Post is a useful summary of the 2020 electoral map. He identifies four states as being key to the upcoming contest: Florida and, quite properly, the Rust-Belt trio of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Let me focus here on that trio of states and run down some of the […]
