“This will not pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future” takes the reader from the last months of Donald Trump’s presidency through Joe Biden’s first year.

As motorists continue to confront record-high gas prices, front-runners — Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry, and Wisconsin State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski — support suspending the federal gas tax.

Barnes had the temerity to tell an audience in Portage last August, “Imagine being so ashamed of how we got to this place in America that you outlaw teaching it.”

Many of us are in despair right now over the direction of our country.

Assault-style weapons simply aren’t used often enough for banning them to have any real impact on gun murders. When they were banned, the number of mass shootings in America went up and, somewhat paradoxically, became deadlier.

Where does that leave Milwaukee?

We are all harmed when basic fairness, decency, and commitment to the public interest become victims, once again, to unchecked political power. The decision contributes to the further breakdown of our system of representative government.

We must teach our children how to treat people and how to transcend prejudice and bias and embrace fairness and civility.

Evidence of declining interest in summer jobs deserves parental response.

The state Supreme Court’s fake nonpartisan pretense will be fully revealed in the spring.