Articulating a need for a separation of church and state was enough to get Thomas Jefferson cut out of history textbooks by the Texas Board...

In the hours before political candidates file their campaign finance reports, their campaigns issue ritual statements showcasing their numbe...

You can hardly blame people for having a tough time telling the difference between the two major parties, what with their slavish devotion a...

Milwaukee Mayor and Democratic candidate for governor Tom Barrett yesterday put forward a plan for changing the way legislative and congres...

Yesterday a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court quietly finalized new rules allowing state judges to decide cases involving their biggest campa...

A strong case for electing members of the U.S. Supreme Court is being made in Washington, by the unlikeliest of advocates, namely the latest...

No doubt remains that we are reliving the Gilded Age. The only question is what name the historians will finally settle on for this latest e...

By brazenly interfering in a state election while it is going on, the radically reactionary majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has once aga...

Not that it matters, but I found myself standing pretty much alone in condemning the Wisconsin Supreme Court's decision to allow the Sc...

The state Supreme Court ruled this morning that former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen should be re-tried for criminal misconduct in public o...

A week after a Democratic smear group launched ads slamming the two GOP candidates for governor, an out-of-state pro-business group is spon...

A secretive Democratic electioneering group launched the first television ad of the 2010 Wisconsin governor's race criticizing Republic...

Numerous candidates for statewide office and the legislature in every election try to hoodwink the public into believing the exorbitant amou...

Longer ago than seems possible, I served in the Peace Corps. I returned to the U.S. in 1991 after two years in the West African country of M...

For years, we have been using our searchable database of campaign money to identify donors who exceed the legal limit on contributions. We ...

In the beginning, there were 13. Now there are hundreds of millions. American colonies, that is. The original 13 declared their independenc...

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Note to Citizens United: It's generally wise to be careful what you wish for. You didn't much like it when we started a protest of t...

Proposals to sharply reduce state regulation of telephone companies so they would no longer have to receive approval to raise their rates, a...