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Jamie Stiehm: Kirk assassination overshadowed remembrance of 9/11 heroes

Friday, Sep 19, 2025

Kirk’s death is being used as a cudgel by Trump, when he could have invited the nation to grieve and come to a clearing of reconciliation in our violent and angry public square.

Read More »

AI growth more likely to threaten older workers than young people entering the workforce

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

AI growth is more likely to threaten those already in the workforce than younger generations who are learning how to use AI before entering the workforce, experts say. Mike Splinter, a 40-year veteran of the semiconductor industry and co-founder of

Read More »

Scott Fitzgerald: Charlie Kirk’s assassination should shake us to the core

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

Now more than ever, we must defend free speech as it is the lifeblood of our republic. Disagreement is healthy. But when rhetoric devolves into dehumanization, it paves the way for violence.

Read More »

Bill Barth: Do your part: Unplug from the hate machine

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

Now the hideous messages are everywhere. For a lot of it — not all, but a lot — I blame the cesspool of social media which encourages irresponsible rhetoric and isolation.

Read More »

Tsela Barr et al.: We oppose antisemitism, but state proposal isn’t the answer

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

As Jews, we unequivocally condemn antisemitism in all its forms. We recognize the urgent and ongoing need to combat hatred, bigotry and discrimination. However, we strongly oppose the proposed codification of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism, including its examples, into Wisconsin state law.

Read More »

Juan Carlos Garcia Martinez: Defending immigrant rights in the fight against fascism

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

Local activists deploy a renewed emphasis on legal strategy and grassroots organizing.

Read More »

Bruce Murphy: Diane Hendricks now richer than Menard!

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

Time to marvel at the incredible wealth of Wisconsin’s richest people.

Read More »

Robert Granader: I’m a Washington Commanders fan. I was heartened at Green Bay Packers game.

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

It wasn’t just one incident, from the cab driver to hotel check-in desk, the fans in line at pre-game concessions, to the endless sea of tailgaters, they wore their host obligations on their jerseys.

Read More »

Steven Walters: Wisconsin depends on immigration

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

Immigrants are 7% of state’s workforce, 11% of business owners, 16% of physicians, HRSC report finds.

Read More »

Melissa Ratcliff: Investing in Wisconsin’s workforce, building our future

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

We need bold, forward-looking policies as in the past that support workers, strengthen businesses, and make sure our state remains a place where families want to live and work.

Read More »

Greg Keenan, Jeanine Burmania and Katie Rice: Beyond the breakthrough: Transforming university inventions into everyday innovations

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has spent a century partnering with UW-Madison to address one of higher education’s most significant challenges: translating university discoveries into real-world impact.

Read More »

John Nichols: Francesca Hong thinks Wisconsin’s ready for bolder politics

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong, a Madison Democrat who, like New York’s Zohran Mamdani, has made a name for herself as an outspoken legislator who is aligned with the Assembly’s multi-member socialist caucus, thinks there is room for an insurgent politics in this state.

Read More »

Mark Belling: Wisconsin judge who danced on Kirk’s grave needs to resign

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

Charlie Kirk was hated because he was so decent and so effective.

Read More »

Bruce Murphy: The rage of Derrick Van Orden

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

Congressman’s attacks on liberals spread exactly the kind of wrath he claims to oppose.

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Once again, America is at the crossroads

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

If we are to survive as a democracy we simply must push back and stem the erosion of shared truth. When facts become negotiable and institutions become stage props, democracy becomes a performative national joke. The stuff that writes itself for a late-night comedian to use.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: Power drunk, in charge of the military. What could go wrong?

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

Aside from wasting taxpayers’ money, this whole business of sending active military soldiers trained to fight wars and kill the enemy to confront their own citizenry is dangerous — and illegal.

Read More »

Hong pledges to fix ‘rigged system’ in launching gubernatorial campaign

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

State Rep. Francesca Hong today joined the growing Dem gubernatorial field, saying she is running to fix a “rigged system.”

Read More »

Richard Moore: Livestock producers in the bureaucratic crosshairs

Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025

DATCP is proposing fee increases on livestock producers, dealers, truckers, and others. Some of the proposed fees would rise by as much as almost 1,700 percent.

Read More »

Mike McCabe: Reverse engineering

Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025

There’s a reason it’s called doomscrolling and not hopescrolling. Social media algorithms favor doom over hope, lies over truth, hate over love.

Read More »

Christina Lieffring: Finding a refuge for the unhoused

Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025

With regressing attitudes towards unhoused people and winter looming, Madison and Dane County need to embrace imperfect solutions.

Read More »

Jamie Stiehm: Kirk assassination overshadowed remembrance of 9/11 heroes

Friday, Sep 19, 2025

Kirk’s death is being used as a cudgel by Trump, when he could have invited the nation to grieve and come to a clearing of reconciliation in our violent and angry public square.

Read More »

AI growth more likely to threaten older workers than young people entering the workforce

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

AI growth is more likely to threaten those already in the workforce than younger generations who are learning how to use AI before entering the workforce, experts say. Mike Splinter, a 40-year veteran of the semiconductor industry and co-founder of WISC Partners, and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, director of UW-Madison’s School of

Read More »

Scott Fitzgerald: Charlie Kirk’s assassination should shake us to the core

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

Now more than ever, we must defend free speech as it is the lifeblood of our republic. Disagreement is healthy. But when rhetoric devolves into dehumanization, it paves the way for violence.

Read More »

Bill Barth: Do your part: Unplug from the hate machine

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

Now the hideous messages are everywhere. For a lot of it — not all, but a lot — I blame the cesspool of social media which encourages irresponsible rhetoric and isolation.

Read More »

Tsela Barr et al.: We oppose antisemitism, but state proposal isn’t the answer

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

As Jews, we unequivocally condemn antisemitism in all its forms. We recognize the urgent and ongoing need to combat hatred, bigotry and discrimination. However, we strongly oppose the proposed codification of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism, including its examples, into Wisconsin state law.

Read More »

Juan Carlos Garcia Martinez: Defending immigrant rights in the fight against fascism

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

Local activists deploy a renewed emphasis on legal strategy and grassroots organizing.

Read More »

Bruce Murphy: Diane Hendricks now richer than Menard!

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

Time to marvel at the incredible wealth of Wisconsin’s richest people.

Read More »

Robert Granader: I’m a Washington Commanders fan. I was heartened at Green Bay Packers game.

Thursday, Sep 18, 2025

It wasn’t just one incident, from the cab driver to hotel check-in desk, the fans in line at pre-game concessions, to the endless sea of tailgaters, they wore their host obligations on their jerseys.

Read More »

Steven Walters: Wisconsin depends on immigration

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

Immigrants are 7% of state’s workforce, 11% of business owners, 16% of physicians, HRSC report finds.

Read More »

Melissa Ratcliff: Investing in Wisconsin’s workforce, building our future

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

We need bold, forward-looking policies as in the past that support workers, strengthen businesses, and make sure our state remains a place where families want to live and work.

Read More »

Greg Keenan, Jeanine Burmania and Katie Rice: Beyond the breakthrough: Transforming university inventions into everyday innovations

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has spent a century partnering with UW-Madison to address one of higher education’s most significant challenges: translating university discoveries into real-world impact.

Read More »

John Nichols: Francesca Hong thinks Wisconsin’s ready for bolder politics

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong, a Madison Democrat who, like New York’s Zohran Mamdani, has made a name for herself as an outspoken legislator who is aligned with the Assembly’s multi-member socialist caucus, thinks there is room for an insurgent politics in this state.

Read More »

Mark Belling: Wisconsin judge who danced on Kirk’s grave needs to resign

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

Charlie Kirk was hated because he was so decent and so effective.

Read More »

Bruce Murphy: The rage of Derrick Van Orden

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

Congressman’s attacks on liberals spread exactly the kind of wrath he claims to oppose.

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Once again, America is at the crossroads

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

If we are to survive as a democracy we simply must push back and stem the erosion of shared truth. When facts become negotiable and institutions become stage props, democracy becomes a performative national joke. The stuff that writes itself for a late-night comedian to use.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: Power drunk, in charge of the military. What could go wrong?

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

Aside from wasting taxpayers’ money, this whole business of sending active military soldiers trained to fight wars and kill the enemy to confront their own citizenry is dangerous — and illegal.

Read More »

Hong pledges to fix ‘rigged system’ in launching gubernatorial campaign

Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025

State Rep. Francesca Hong today joined the growing Dem gubernatorial field, saying she is running to fix a “rigged system.”

Read More »

Richard Moore: Livestock producers in the bureaucratic crosshairs

Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025

DATCP is proposing fee increases on livestock producers, dealers, truckers, and others. Some of the proposed fees would rise by as much as almost 1,700 percent.

Read More »

Mike McCabe: Reverse engineering

Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025

There’s a reason it’s called doomscrolling and not hopescrolling. Social media algorithms favor doom over hope, lies over truth, hate over love.

Read More »

Christina Lieffring: Finding a refuge for the unhoused

Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025

With regressing attitudes towards unhoused people and winter looming, Madison and Dane County need to embrace imperfect solutions.

Read More »
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