Annelle Sheline, PhD, is a research fellow in the Middle East program. She previously served as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor ...

Members of the public have submitted four police complaints for the office to process. But a procedure for processing those complaints still hasn’t been adopted. Copley says the procedure has been ...

Amelia Royko Mauer, co-founding advocate for the Community Response Team, joins the Thursday edition of the 8 O’Clock Buzz and host Tony Castañeda to talk about the status of the Police Civilian ...

Madison in the Sixties. May 16, 1966 – the anti-deferment sit-in. As the war in Viet Nam kept getting worse, the monthly draft call kept getting higher. When it hit 40,000 in December 1965, Selective ...

The Madison Police Department deployed more tear gas during Black Lives Matter protests in late May and early June than they did in the prior 16 years combined. Over just three days and nights from ...

It takes a lot of staff to keep the city running, but many of them work behind the scenes. Kicking off our new series “Get To Know Your Local Government,” WORT reporter Sutton Johnson visited City ...

First up, we review Madison Water Utility’s latest annual drinking water quality report with civil engineer Kelly Miess. “We drink the tap water here,” she says. “We take that for granted—that’s not ...

“The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed”, co-authored by guest John Cavanagh from the Institute for Policy Studies, is a David & Goliath story of the small ...

Nearly 70% of U.S. adults support banning student cell phone use in K-12 classrooms, according to a survey this fall by Pew Research Center. And lawmakers across the country are taking note. Wisconsin ...

For today’s show, Ali Muldrow hosts the article’s co-authors, historians Christy Clark-Pujara and Anna-Lisa Cox, for a discussion about racism in the Midwest and coming to terms with our history. They ...

Vets on Frets is a band formed from the non-profit Guitars for Vets, which has been sharing the healing power of music by providing free guitar lessons to veterans since 2007. Vets on Frets consists ...

CT: Well, I sang before I could speak when I was very little. I was born in India, but then I’ve lived in New York City for 43 years. I used to sing a lot. I had lots of chores when I was a little ...