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David Blaska: Democrats stick with losing formula

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

Wisconsin Democrats, at least, are sticking to the old-time religion: racial grievance, welfare statism, class warfare, open borders, redistributionism (aka “socialism”), Greta Thunberg, and pronouns.

Read More »

Spencer Black: State parks’ 125th birthday gift? Least state funding in US

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

According to the National Association of State Parks Directors, funding for the Wisconsin state park system is the lowest in the country.

Read More »
Portrait of Gregg Hoffmann

Gregg Hoffmann: Rural impact on energy

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

Rural America, and specifically rural Wisconsin, can play important roles in the move to the next generation of energy.

Read More »

LaKeshia Myers: Reclaiming the road: Black joy and the legacy of safe haven travel

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

The story of African American travel is one of resilience carved from necessity.

Read More »

Mark Belling: Ron Johnson’s spending cut demand could torpedo Trump’s tax cut

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

If Johnson is able to apply pressure to improve a bill that ultimately passes, he will be a hero. But if that pressure does the reverse and torpedoes everything, he will have his fingerprints on a disaster.

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Utterly preposterous: Trump peddling ‘law and order’ as reason for troops on American streets

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

When the leader is so disrespectful toward the laws, we have a higher duty to stand up and let values and democratic principles flow.

Read More »
Portrait of John Nichols

John Nichols: Anticipating Trump, Tom Paine was saying ‘No Kings!’ in 1776

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

While Trump will mount a monarchical display in Washington on Saturday with a military parade on what happens to be his birthday, the No Kings! movement says that: “On June 14th, we’re showing up everywhere he isn’t — to say no thrones, no crowns, no kings.”

Read More »

John Torinus: To Trump, more adversaries are bad business

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

The adversaries that President Trump unnecessarily keeps making won’t be there to help us with breakthrough thinking. Conversely, we need to develop as many allies as we can, so collaborative thinking can help us remain the leading military power in the world.

Read More »
Portrait of Bruce Murphy

Bruce Murphy: Bucks violating promises on unions?

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

Adding non-union businesses to Deer District after making promises to get state subsidy.

Read More »
Portrait of Tom Still

Tom Still: For ‘treps, there are some enduring paths to success

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

The latest edition of the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest underscored that entrepreneurs can be found in all business sectors, from agriculture to artificial intelligence, and from recharging tired batteries to repurposing old clothing.

Read More »

Cate Zeuske: Decoupling a common sense solution to Wisconsin school funding conundrum

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

At the heart of this issue is what I believe to be a false notion that school choice ‘siphons’ money away from public schools.

Read More »

Nancy Gertner and Michael Luttig: Prosecution of Judge Hannah Dugan undermines centuries of legal precedent

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Her arrest and prosecution are nothing but the next attempt by the current administration to threaten and intimidate the judiciary because the courts are ruling against the president and his administration daily.

Read More »

Dan O’Donnell: Now the whole country knows how bad the Wisconsin Supreme Court is

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Writing for all eight of her fellow justices, Sotomayor wrote that the Wisconsin Supreme Court grossly violated Catholic Charities’ First Amendment rights when it denied them a religious exemption to the state’s unemployment tax and, in so doing, treated the organization differently than other religious groups.

Read More »
This image depicts inside the U.S. Capitol building. The ornate ceiling of the dome is shown, with a silhouette of a statue in the lower left portion of the image frame.

Bill Kaplan: Trump and GOP – more dead, sick and hungry

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Trump and the GOP-led Congress want to pay for tax cuts skewed to the rich with draconian cuts in health care coverage and aid to feed the hungry.

Read More »

Ruth Conniff: Wisconsin members of Congress stand up to rogue feds

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan and Gwen Moore toured Wisconsin’s only the ICE detention facility and demanded answers about the people being targeted for deportation in the state.

Read More »
Badger Institute logo

Mark Lisheron: At center of America’s essential debate, Johnson says resist spending frenzy

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Johnson laments Medicaid’s ‘legalized fraud’ and says childless adults should work.

Read More »
Portrait of Michelle Bryant

Michelle Bryant: Threats to Medicaid coverage endanger us all

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Many of the proposed cuts in the Trump administration’s budget, don’t just harm specific groups—they have a ripple effect on families and communities.

Read More »

Paul Fanlund: Enough with the obsessing about what Democrats got wrong

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

While the Biden saga dominated recently, the Democratic bickering and blame-placing is getting old now six months into the second Trump presidency. Everyone has a prescription for Democrats, many directly conflicting with others.

Read More »
Portrait of John Nichols

John Nichols: Pride flag opposition puts GOP on the wrong side of history

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Those efforts do not merely seek to erase the heritage of Wisconsin’s LGBTQ+ community. They also dismiss the rich legacy of enlightened Republicans, like former Gov. Dreyfus, who stood on the right side of history.

Read More »

Edward J. Huck: America must support more critical thinking skills

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Teaching people to be skeptical of a source is not an indoctrination tactic, it is an essence of democracy.

Read More »

David Blaska: Democrats stick with losing formula

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

Wisconsin Democrats, at least, are sticking to the old-time religion: racial grievance, welfare statism, class warfare, open borders, redistributionism (aka “socialism”), Greta Thunberg, and pronouns.

Read More »

Spencer Black: State parks’ 125th birthday gift? Least state funding in US

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

According to the National Association of State Parks Directors, funding for the Wisconsin state park system is the lowest in the country.

Read More »
Portrait of Gregg Hoffmann

Gregg Hoffmann: Rural impact on energy

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

Rural America, and specifically rural Wisconsin, can play important roles in the move to the next generation of energy.

Read More »

LaKeshia Myers: Reclaiming the road: Black joy and the legacy of safe haven travel

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

The story of African American travel is one of resilience carved from necessity.

Read More »

Mark Belling: Ron Johnson’s spending cut demand could torpedo Trump’s tax cut

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

If Johnson is able to apply pressure to improve a bill that ultimately passes, he will be a hero. But if that pressure does the reverse and torpedoes everything, he will have his fingerprints on a disaster.

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Utterly preposterous: Trump peddling ‘law and order’ as reason for troops on American streets

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

When the leader is so disrespectful toward the laws, we have a higher duty to stand up and let values and democratic principles flow.

Read More »
Portrait of John Nichols

John Nichols: Anticipating Trump, Tom Paine was saying ‘No Kings!’ in 1776

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

While Trump will mount a monarchical display in Washington on Saturday with a military parade on what happens to be his birthday, the No Kings! movement says that: “On June 14th, we’re showing up everywhere he isn’t — to say no thrones, no crowns, no kings.”

Read More »

John Torinus: To Trump, more adversaries are bad business

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

The adversaries that President Trump unnecessarily keeps making won’t be there to help us with breakthrough thinking. Conversely, we need to develop as many allies as we can, so collaborative thinking can help us remain the leading military power in the world.

Read More »
Portrait of Bruce Murphy

Bruce Murphy: Bucks violating promises on unions?

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

Adding non-union businesses to Deer District after making promises to get state subsidy.

Read More »
Portrait of Tom Still

Tom Still: For ‘treps, there are some enduring paths to success

Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025

The latest edition of the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest underscored that entrepreneurs can be found in all business sectors, from agriculture to artificial intelligence, and from recharging tired batteries to repurposing old clothing.

Read More »

Cate Zeuske: Decoupling a common sense solution to Wisconsin school funding conundrum

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

At the heart of this issue is what I believe to be a false notion that school choice ‘siphons’ money away from public schools.

Read More »

Nancy Gertner and Michael Luttig: Prosecution of Judge Hannah Dugan undermines centuries of legal precedent

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Her arrest and prosecution are nothing but the next attempt by the current administration to threaten and intimidate the judiciary because the courts are ruling against the president and his administration daily.

Read More »

Dan O’Donnell: Now the whole country knows how bad the Wisconsin Supreme Court is

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Writing for all eight of her fellow justices, Sotomayor wrote that the Wisconsin Supreme Court grossly violated Catholic Charities’ First Amendment rights when it denied them a religious exemption to the state’s unemployment tax and, in so doing, treated the organization differently than other religious groups.

Read More »
This image depicts inside the U.S. Capitol building. The ornate ceiling of the dome is shown, with a silhouette of a statue in the lower left portion of the image frame.

Bill Kaplan: Trump and GOP – more dead, sick and hungry

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Trump and the GOP-led Congress want to pay for tax cuts skewed to the rich with draconian cuts in health care coverage and aid to feed the hungry.

Read More »

Ruth Conniff: Wisconsin members of Congress stand up to rogue feds

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan and Gwen Moore toured Wisconsin’s only the ICE detention facility and demanded answers about the people being targeted for deportation in the state.

Read More »
Badger Institute logo

Mark Lisheron: At center of America’s essential debate, Johnson says resist spending frenzy

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Johnson laments Medicaid’s ‘legalized fraud’ and says childless adults should work.

Read More »
Portrait of Michelle Bryant

Michelle Bryant: Threats to Medicaid coverage endanger us all

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Many of the proposed cuts in the Trump administration’s budget, don’t just harm specific groups—they have a ripple effect on families and communities.

Read More »

Paul Fanlund: Enough with the obsessing about what Democrats got wrong

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

While the Biden saga dominated recently, the Democratic bickering and blame-placing is getting old now six months into the second Trump presidency. Everyone has a prescription for Democrats, many directly conflicting with others.

Read More »
Portrait of John Nichols

John Nichols: Pride flag opposition puts GOP on the wrong side of history

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Those efforts do not merely seek to erase the heritage of Wisconsin’s LGBTQ+ community. They also dismiss the rich legacy of enlightened Republicans, like former Gov. Dreyfus, who stood on the right side of history.

Read More »

Edward J. Huck: America must support more critical thinking skills

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

Teaching people to be skeptical of a source is not an indoctrination tactic, it is an essence of democracy.

Read More »
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