Senate Republicans are pretending that extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts will cost nothing. Sprinkling fairy dust doesn’t change a lie.

Many African Americans find themselves grappling with a familiar frustration: being called upon to stand in solidarity with others, while often feeling abandoned when it is our turn to receive reciprocal support.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not a secret police force, not yet. But recent actions taken by ICE under Donald Trump’s regime raise urgent and unavoidable parallels.

Amid so much pain and so much crude political maneuvering by U.S. and Israeli leaders, the pontiff focused on the humanity of Palestinians.

International students bring ideas, energy and determination.

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‘Free’ federal money put Milwaukee on the hook for ongoing expenses; time to say ‘enough.’

I will admit it. I enjoy the shock I hear in town hall meetings from many voters in Trump country.

Here we are today, backsliding on what the John Lewises of the world have given us through their years of pain and suffering. And almost all of it by executive orders signed by a bumbling white supremacist president.

With Crawford’s victory, Wisconsin boosted a national movement for change just a few short months after the last presidential election, increasing hope for our nation.

A Milwaukee-hating CEO destroys Harley

Vos eventually found his spine and fired Gableman. Too little. Too late. And definitely not enough to absolve him of blame in this mess.

Ridglan Farms could face criminal charges as well as regulatory consequences.

Early childhood education is a springboard to lifelong success for kids. It’s a necessity for many parents to participate in the workforce and a lifeline to businesses who depend on a deep talent pool.

If Trump’s tariffs return, Wisconsin will pay a steeper price than neighboring Minnesota.

I want to speak a word of sympathy for the hard-pressed attorneys now working for the U.S. Department of Justice. It seems they are losing most of the cases they argue on behalf of the current administration, and, according to their boss, the attorney general, it’s because they aren’t “zealous” enough.

In multiple instances, Trump simply is not following the court orders or rulings and thereby is not allowing the process of our Constitutional checks and balances to work.

If you think this is just a phase and that Trump will settle down once he’s made the changes he wants, I wouldn’t count on that. Trump’s chaos is not part of a process — it’s the whole point.