The Wisconsin Idea

Video

Is Obama’s Afghanistan Strategy a Dead End?

Jeremy Gantz

Weekly Audit: Why the Current Stimulus Plan Isn’t Enough

Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger

Kim Jong-il’s Pyrotechnics

Amalia Oulahan

Culture

No Sugar-Coating Immigration

A new film will enthrall baseball fans--and anyone fascinated by the endurance of American ideals.

Brandon Harris

Comics

janereaction

Mikhaela B. Reid

Dispatch

Same-Sex Marriage in the Heartland

Iowa becomes the first state in the Midwest to extend the right to marry to gays and lesbians.

Jessica Pupovac

Friday Afternoon Roundup: ‘Frustrated and Scared as Hell’

Louis Mattei

Gay Marriage Now as American as Corn-Fed Midwesterners

Jeremy Gantz

Video

The Franken-Coleman Saga, in 16 Minutes

Jeremy Gantz