Tom Nelson for WisconsinBook Review by Tom Nelson — Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War (William Saletan)William Saletan’s Bearing Right: How conservatives won the abortion war is an appropriate title for a book in the wake of the Dobbs…Sep 7, 2022Sep 7, 2022
Tom Nelson for WisconsinBook Review by Tom Nelson — Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers (John Nichols)Few examples of reprehensible Republican behavior piss me off more so than the GOP’s response to the COVID pandemic. And I’m not just…Aug 22, 2022Aug 22, 2022
Tom Nelson for WisconsinBook Review by Tom Nelson — Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy…Few policy problems are easier to diagnose but more difficult to treat than the dairy crisis. “You have to change the economics,” my…Aug 4, 2022Aug 4, 2022
Tom Nelson for WisconsinBook Review by Tom Nelson — Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain (Danny Goldberg)While there are countless books and documentaries on the late Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, few are as intimate and meaningful as…Apr 10, 2022Apr 10, 2022
Tom Nelson for WisconsinBook Review by Tom Nelson — Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate (Jonathan Kasparek)Growing up I didn’t want to be a Green Bay Packer or a Milwaukee Brewer; I wanted to be a Bill Proxmire. Proxmire was the hardest working…Mar 15, 2022Mar 15, 2022
Tom Nelson for WisconsinFull Nelson Agenda: Jobs & the EconomyWrestling Corporate Interests, Pinning Down Inflation, Restoring Our Supply Chain & Making It In WisconsinMar 10, 2022Mar 10, 2022
Tom Nelson for WisconsinBook Review by Tom Nelson — The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World (Robert Kagan)When I read the famed neo-conservative “thinker” Robert Kagan, I hear a voice in my head: “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”…Feb 16, 2022Feb 16, 2022
Tom Nelson for WisconsinHands Off Sweden 🇸🇪When campaigning, people often ask, “Nelson, is that with an -on or -en?” Or, “Nelson, that must be Norwegian?”Feb 1, 2022Feb 1, 2022
Tom Nelson for WisconsinBook Review by Tom Nelson — The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Small-Town America (Robert…“Why can’t Democrats do better in rural areas?”Jan 21, 2022Jan 21, 2022
Tom Nelson for WisconsinBook Review by Tom Nelson — Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of…I have been a public servant for seventeen years, six as a legislator, eleven as an executive. The last book I’d want to read is how the…Dec 28, 2021Dec 28, 2021
