Wikler, a 42-year-old Madison West High and Harvard graduate, is an ascending superstar in national Democratic politics, having led the Wisconsin party for nearly three years. The day after the bitterly contested court race, we talked about the campaign from the inside.

The election in Wisconsin this week is a vivid reminder that what happens at the local and state level is often more important than what takes place at the federal level.

Daniel Kelly, the losing candidate in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, gave a remarkably bitter concession speech Tuesday night that could serve as an epitaph for misogynist minority rule in Wisconsin.

After it became clear Tuesday night that Janet Protasiewicz would defeat him by a wide margin, he had nothing but bad things to say about his opponent.

The staggering amount of record-breaking money in the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court race shows the crying need for fundamental campaign finance reform.

Dan Kelly was always swimming upstream. A commanding two-thirds of Wisconsin voters supported Roe v Wade, overturned last year by the U.S. Supreme Court in its Dobbs v Jackson Health decision.

The legislature’s budget-writing Joint Committee on Finance continues to do our work on the next state budget. We recently invited four state agencies to brief our committee and started a series of four public hearings around the state.

Children should have every opportunity to learn and grow in a safe space, especially during the first three years of their life.

$144 million settlement what America needs to face.

Being poor isn’t a choice and isn’t a character flaw. It’s the natural byproduct of a society that turns a blind eye to how the most vulnerable among us are mercilessly exploited.