Last night’s vice presidential debate was a much calmer affair than President Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s showdown last week. But, the VP debate wasn’t without its own flaws–as the two candidates skirted questions, falling back on campaign trail rhetoric instead of engaging in a nuanced discussion of public policy. To dissect last night’s debate, […]
Fall Election in Turmoil
On July 30, President Trump took to his favorite communication tool, Twitter. He posted: As with many of Trump’s comments, it’s difficult to tell whether or not he actually believes he has the power to delay the election, or if he’s simply kicking the beehive. Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the LaFollette […]
Wisconsin Supreme Court case could purge 129,000 voters
Earlier this month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to take up a case that could purge around 129,000 voters from the state’s voter registration roles. The suit comes after months of competing legal cases over Wisconsin’s voter purging tactics. Today, WORT Producer Jonah Chester spoke with Wisconsin Watch contributor Michael Parksy. Parsky recently co-authored a […]
Ted Rall: Bernie on the Verge
On March 3, 2020, Super Tuesday, 15 U.S. States and Territories cast their primary ballots for President of the United States. For the Democrats, one thousand three hundred and forty four delegates are up for grabs, more than a third of all the delegates in the primary contest. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders enters the […]
Unpacking the Mueller Hearings with Mueller, She Wrote
Earlier today, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held open hearings with Special Counsel Robert Mueller about the 448-page Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election, commonly known as the Mueller Report. To make sense of all this, we play select audio clips from […]
Madisonians Weigh In On Presidential Candidates
We, Peyton Barber and Mario Canacasco, the news interns for WORT FM, set out on a mission to find out who people were planning to vote for in the 2020 election, and the issues that would bring them to the polls. We took it to the streets of Madison to ask about four dozen people […]
