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  • The Reality of Right vs. Left in the Midwest

    BY KEVIN DEUTSCH The recent New York Times editorial by Professor Lawrence R. Jacobs misrepresents how Republican Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin and DFL Governor Mark Dayton of Minnesota have led their states through the economic recovery. Jacobs compares the two Midwestern states, which elected governors from different parties in 2010, as a sort of…

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  • Why the Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting Should Make Us All Afraid

    BY RAJA KRISHNA On Friday, July 20th, 2012, a man named James Eagen Holmes walked into a Colorado movie theater and opened fire on a crowd of confused and terrified moviegoers. Seventeen days later, on Sunday, August 5th, 2012, a man named Wade Michael Page walked into a Wisconsin gurdwara—a Sikh place of worship—and opened…

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  • A Wisconsinite Expat’s Take on Walker’s Victory

    I spent the past three weeks visiting my family in Madison, Wisconsin. The Democratic Party’s effort to recall Governor Scott Walker has caused my home state to shed the Upper-Midwestern niceties I had come to know. You could cut the tension in the state’s supper clubs with a knife.  I stepped into ground-zero of our…

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