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How Shooter’s Race Impacts Media Coverage

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Here are two news headlines, about a year apart, in two different U.S. cities.  Here’s the first: “Suspect charged with capital murder in death of 6 children, 2 adults.”   Here’s the second: “Officer who killed family had dark side, struggled since childhood.” Can you guess which one describes a white suspect, and which one describes […]

August 14 Primary Date Effects Madison Student Voters

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In 2018, the Wisconsin partisan primary falls on August 14th. Political cynics, or, if you prefer, political realists, have noted that if you wanted to make it difficult for college students to vote, you couldn’t pick a better date than the day tens of thousands of University of Wisconsin students are homeless. Every year, on […]

Journalist Dan Kaufman on The Fall of Wisconsin

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Tony Castañeda speaks with journalist Dan Kaufman, who’s reported on Wisconsin’s recent political changes for The New York Times and The New Yorker. His new book The Fall Of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest Of A Progressive Bastion And The Future Of American Politics gives a deep political history of state, from the formation of the […]