Barry Alvarez, the former head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers football team and the current UW-Madison athletics director, talks with Sports Illustrated editor Chris Stone about his time developing the football program and current challenges facing the game.

Recordings from Cap Times Idea Fest, a two-day event featuring lively discussions and engaging conversations with leaders from the realms of politics, the economy, education, journalism and culture.

Recordings from Cap Times Idea Fest, a two-day event featuring lively discussions and engaging conversations with leaders from the realms of politics, the economy, education, journalism and culture.

Live from Cap Times Idea Fest

Recordings from Cap Times Idea Fest, a two-day event featuring lively discussions and engaging conversations with leaders from the realms of politics, the economy, education, journalism, and culture.

Recordings from Cap Times Idea Fest, a two-day event featuring lively discussions and engaging conversations with leaders from the realms of politics, the economy, education, journalism, and culture.

Barry Alvarez, the former head coach of the Wisco…

Barry Alvarez

Cap Times Investigative Reporter Katelyn Ferral sat down with three journalism leaders and researchers to discuss what news outlets should do stay credible in an age of “alternative facts.”

Cap Times Investigative Reporter Katelyn Ferral s…

The news media’s credibility crisis

In 1979, The Progressive magazine gained national attention as the defendant in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. government seeking to prevent the magazine from publishing the “secret” of the hydrogen bomb, though all the information was already publicly available. 

Bill Lueders, editor of The Progressive, spoke with key people involved in the article about the lessons to be learned from their experience.

In 1979, The Progressive magazine gained national attention as the defendant in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. government seeking to prevent the magazine from publishing the “secret” of the hydrogen bomb, though all the information was already publicly available.   Bill Lueders, editor of The Progressive, spoke with key people involved in the article about the lessons to be learned from their experience.

In 1979, The Progressive magazine gained national…

The First Amendment, government authority and nuclear weapons

This year's Cap Times Idea Fest included a meditation on the state of the union -- not with a speech delivered by the president, but with a conversation among an all-star roster of Washington Post journalists.

This year's Cap Times Idea Fest included a medita…

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