Political scientist Eitan Hersh advises those who fear for our democracy to find ways, even small ones, to act and not kvetch.

The search committee for a new University of Wisconsin System president has surfaced two candidates who look to have the chops necessary for leading the university through some turbulent times in the next five to ten years.

The government bureaucracy can be an inefficient waste of taxpayer money.

The Wisconsin Legislature is considering a bill that would make it law to allow prior COVID-19 infection as an alternative to vaccination for purposes of vaccine mandate requirements. This is a bad idea.

For 111 agonizing minutes Wednesday afternoon, President Biden bumbled and stumbled, bloviated and obfuscated, and just generally screwed up so colossally that his press team spent much of Thursday doing damage control. It was the perfect metaphor for Biden’s first year in office.

Alex Lasry picked a bad time to roll out a campaign ad insisting he’d “stand up to China.”

With the annualized inflation rate hitting 7 percent at the end of 2021, the highest rate since 1982, an economy already troubled by the pandemic, supply-chain troubles and workforce shortages faces a challenge hardly talked about a year ago.

Don Smiley gets total compensation of 1.19 million in 2019 and $1.29 million in 2020.