The acrimonious Wisconsin Supreme Court election is about sharply different views about two fundamental rights, abortion and robust guardrails that protect democracy.

Unless we elect Judge Janet Protasiewicz to the Supreme Court on April 4, physician training on contraception will remain inadequate, resulting in more unwanted pregnancies and prompting medical students to look elsewhere for their education.

If Wisconsin’s state supreme court race is the most important election of the year, Dane County is the most important of the 72 counties.

The stakes could not be higher. And the contrast between the candidates could not be clearer.

Tortured words and their offspring named propaganda are the sticks and stones of culture warfare. They can break bones. The very ones that form the skeleton of the body politic, the substructure of a free and democratic society.

It’s only the top half of the first inning of the Trump indictment game, but his challengers for the GOP nomination have taken the early lead.

As New York prepares to arraign its most prominent chronic offender, a few things to ponder.

Another mass shooting a few days ago, this one in Nashville, Tenn., was disturbing enough. But even more disturbing were the stories out of Washington, D.C., describing an American Congress collectively shrugging its shoulders.