Wisconsin Power Play  —  Last week, in the face of protest demonstrations against Wisconsin's new union-busting governor, Scott Walker — demonstrations that continued through the weekend, with huge crowds on Saturday — Representative Paul Ryan made an unintentionally apt comparison: “It's like Cairo has moved to Madison.”

Moderate Wisconsin Republicans Offer Compromise  —  With Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker maintaining a hard line on his budget bill and Democratic senators refusing to return to Madison to vote, attention is turning to a group of moderate Republican senators to negotiate a compromise to the stalemate …

Libya clashes spread to Tripoli  —  Clashes between anti-government protesters and Gaddafi supporters escalate as army unit ‘defects’ in Benghazi.  —  Security forces have shot dead scores of protesters in Libya's second largest city, where residents said a military unit had joined their cause.

Libya protests: Gaddafi's son warns of civil war  —  Sayf al-Islam, Colonel Gaddafi's son, appears on Libyan TV and accuses people outside Libya of provoking violence  —  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son, Sayf al-Islam, has warned of civil war in the country.