Welcome to Richard Moore In-Depth. First things first, click here to head to the homepage and see what it’s about, or read on to find out more about me and what this newsletter is about.

I’m glad you’re here and I hope that you get the most from your subscription. There are two realms to this Substack: National politics, featuring articles, special investigations, essays, and (sometimes) audiocasts on national topics; and a Wisconsin section, featuring the same about the Badger state.

The slant here is libertarian-ish, and the special topics of interest to be probed are the dangers of the collective administrative state, protecting civil liberties and open government, the growing authoritarianism in the west and in the corporate media, and a growing re-alignment of politics in the U.S. based primarily on those fighting authoritarianism and, on the other side, the authoritarians themselves and their boosters. Curveball issues will be thrown.

My writing and essays have appeared in more than two dozen national and regional publications, including The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The New York Times travel section, The Washington Post, Charleston Magazine, The St. Petersburg Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and many more.

I am the author of Dark State: How Wisconsin Citizens Can Open the Doors to Wisconsin’s Closed Government; Journeys of Lightheartedness; January Thaw; The Clarity of Clay; How the DNR Stole Wisconsin; The New Bossism of the American Left; Prologue: My Dinners with Dusty; and the forthcoming books, Globacracy; Edisto: The True Story of a Sea Island’s Survival, Mapping the Close Years and How to Write What You Want to Read.

Journeys of Lightheartedness is a Kirkus Reviews recommended book and also received a five-star Readers’ Review rating from Jack Magnus, who called his reading of the book “a remarkable and illuminating experience.”

In addition, I am the senior investigative reporter for, and former editor of, The Lakeland Times in Minocqua, Wisconsin. Most recently, I have won the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) first-place award for investigative journalism for the last four years—2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022; the 2017 and 2019 WNA first-place awards for open government and Freedom of Information Act reporting; the 2017 WNA first-place award in enterprise journalism for my series, “Autism and Education”; and the 2019 and 2022 first-place awards for editorial writing.

My writing has appeared in college texts (Social Problems, edited by Stanley Eitzen, Allyn & Bacon, Inc.). I was a contributor to The Reform of State Legislatures (University Press of America), which The Wall Street Journal called “powerful evidence for those who wish to return to the citizen legislatures envisioned by the Founding Fathers.”

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