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MADISON, Wisconsin — On an oppressively hot August day in downtown Madison, the signs of this famously liberal city’s progressive activism are everywhere. Buildings are draped in pride flags and Black Lives Matter signs are prominently displayed on storefronts. A musty bookstore advertises revolutionary titles and newspaper clippings of rallies against Donald Trump. A fancy restaurant features a graphic of a raised Black fist in its window, with chalk outside on the sidewalk reading “solidarity forever.”Yet the Green Party, which bills itself as an independent political party that has the best interests of self-described leftists at heart, is nowhere to...

Wednesday, May 28, 2003 Greens Sing the Blues: 'Loony' McKinney for President? True, the Green Party is tiny, but it was big enough in 2000 to trip Al Gore on his way to the Oval Office. Now the Bush-bashing party is split over running another spoiler in 2004 or backing the Democrats’ nominee. "At the moment, everything is on the table and everything is being discussed," John Strawn, co-chairman of the Greens’ presidential exploratory committee, told the Washington Post. As Kermit the Frog once noted in a different context, it’s not easy being Green. You have to hold your nose...