Paul Fanlund

3 weeks ago | captimes.com | Paul Fanlund

Speaking this spring in Youngstown, Ohio, Tim Walz was asked how Democrats should fight back against President Donald Trump. “Probably the last guy” to lecture the party “is the guy who got his ass kicked in the last election,” answered its 2024 candidate for vice president. It’s a line Walz uses regularly, wrote Mark Leibovich in The Atlantic. “Audiences laugh at this, always,” he wrote.

3 weeks ago | captimes.com | Paul Fanlund

Speaking this spring in Youngstown, Ohio, Tim Walz was asked how Democrats should fight back against President Donald Trump. “Probably the last guy” to lecture the party “is the guy who got his ass kicked in the last election,” answered its 2024 candidate for vice president. It’s a line Walz uses regularly, wrote Mark Leibovich in The Atlantic. “Audiences laugh at this, always,” he wrote.

1 month ago | captimes.com | Paul Fanlund

When Eugene Robinson left the San Francisco Chronicle to join the Washington Post in January 1980, he began working with a deputy metro editor named David Maraniss. Forty-five years later, the two friends severed their connections to the famous national newspaper within weeks of one another after owner Jeff Bezos escalated his involvement — many would call it interference — in the Post’s opinion journalism.

1 month ago | captimes.com | Paul Fanlund

Andre Perry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an expert on race in America, believes the state of African Americans in any community can best be measured by the life expectancy of Black people living there. By that measure, Madison is below average. Black people in the city have a shorter average life expectancy than the national average — 72.6 years versus 74.9 years nationally. That is according to the “Black Progress Index,” a sophisticated Brookings database available online.

2 months ago | captimes.com | Paul Fanlund

Ben Wikler’s recent announcement that he’s stepping down as Wisconsin’s Democratic leader generated a volume of national coverage I’ve never seen for the head of a state party. A New York Magazine interview was typical in its admiring tone. Since he got the job in 2019, Wikler has “molded the organization into the gold standard” among state parties, the article said. After Wikler’s announcement, he spent some time vacationing with his family and renovating his Madison home.