At 5:01 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 2, Tim Ramthun was sitting in his living room with the TV on when his cellphone rang. He turned to his wife of four decades, Carolann. “Oh, the president’s calling,” he told her. She scoffed. “Hello, Mr. President,” Ramthun said to the caller. “This …
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Donald Trump has tested previously held concepts of Oval Office power much like a Jurassic Park raptor testing an electric fence for weaknesses. The aspiring authoritarian has been busy lately, even by his standards: sound-and-fury executive orders that boast of solving the Covid-19 aid stalemate on Capitol Hill, but do …
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When Wisconsin voters went to the polls on April 7, 2020, they did so during one of the largest pandemics to sweep the country in recent memory. Predictably and tragically, at least 40 Wisconsin voters in Milwaukee County alone contracted the novel coronavirus at the polls. In total, the state …
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