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As Evers appointees rewarded utility execs, Kamala Harris backed off taxing corporations.

To prepare, Defense Secretary-designate Pete Hegseth will need to overhaul the bureaucracy and cut waste.

Without being a seasoned lawmaker with defense policy experience, or a serious-minded person with a deep hands-on background that blends with the job, we are only left to conclude Pete Hegseth is nothing more than the juvenile version of Oliver North.

We may differ on how much control we cede to any level of government, but must remember that government has no power aside from those granted by consent of the governed. With those principles in mind, it can be “morning in America” once again.

Maybe this is who Americans really are.

While students have been advocating for the dignity of Palestinian lives, UW has fought repeatedly to protect the status quo at the expense of students’ voices and well-being.

The nation’s national dietary guidelines are fashioned by a committee long riddled with conflicts of interest.

With rare exceptions, Kamala Harris lost support across demographic groups compared to Joe Biden.

Gen Z males embrace Trump’s GOP and reject wokeness.

Between Trump and Harris supporters, is there a middle ground we can all inhabit without compromising our core values?

Trump himself, his bombastic running mate and his entire campaign entourage, including sitting members of Congress, made it clear time and again during this campaign that they would not accept the verdict if he lost.

es, a third-party Senate candidate who ran against incumbent Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric Hovde was a plant—but not an unwilling one.

Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde didn’t say it, but he certainly seems to believe it: His race was stolen from him.

Wisconsin voters rejected Kamala Harris but back many other women for office.

Wisconsin is not red or blue, and leaders should act like it.

U.S. torture proves costly at $42 million: Some of the highest ideals of our nation were tossed aside so lawlessness and extra-constitutional excesses could run roughshod in prisons overseas.

In winning the White House, flipping the Senate and perhaps keeping control of the House, Donald Trump and Republicans will follow the path of Grover Cleveland. Cruelty and stupidity will reign supreme.

Here’s why. … Good things can happen when you choose to be active and involved in moving the world to be closer to the one you hope to live in.

The difference in the reaction to an electoral defeat mirrors a gaping difference between the parties regarding respect for our Constitution, American democratic norms and basic decency.

The Cheney strategy was an abject failure that added few if any votes to the Democratic total, alienated voters who had no taste for the former GOP representative’s neocon extremism, and stole precious time from an agonizingly short campaign schedule.

As Evers appointees rewarded utility execs, Kamala Harris backed off taxing corporations.

To prepare, Defense Secretary-designate Pete Hegseth will need to overhaul the bureaucracy and cut waste.

Without being a seasoned lawmaker with defense policy experience, or a serious-minded person with a deep hands-on background that blends with the job, we are only left to conclude Pete Hegseth is nothing more than the juvenile version of Oliver North.

We may differ on how much control we cede to any level of government, but must remember that government has no power aside from those granted by consent of the governed. With those principles in mind, it can be “morning in America” once again.

Maybe this is who Americans really are.

While students have been advocating for the dignity of Palestinian lives, UW has fought repeatedly to protect the status quo at the expense of students’ voices and well-being.

The nation’s national dietary guidelines are fashioned by a committee long riddled with conflicts of interest.

With rare exceptions, Kamala Harris lost support across demographic groups compared to Joe Biden.

Gen Z males embrace Trump’s GOP and reject wokeness.

Between Trump and Harris supporters, is there a middle ground we can all inhabit without compromising our core values?

Trump himself, his bombastic running mate and his entire campaign entourage, including sitting members of Congress, made it clear time and again during this campaign that they would not accept the verdict if he lost.

es, a third-party Senate candidate who ran against incumbent Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric Hovde was a plant—but not an unwilling one.

Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde didn’t say it, but he certainly seems to believe it: His race was stolen from him.

Wisconsin voters rejected Kamala Harris but back many other women for office.

Wisconsin is not red or blue, and leaders should act like it.

U.S. torture proves costly at $42 million: Some of the highest ideals of our nation were tossed aside so lawlessness and extra-constitutional excesses could run roughshod in prisons overseas.

In winning the White House, flipping the Senate and perhaps keeping control of the House, Donald Trump and Republicans will follow the path of Grover Cleveland. Cruelty and stupidity will reign supreme.

Here’s why. … Good things can happen when you choose to be active and involved in moving the world to be closer to the one you hope to live in.

The difference in the reaction to an electoral defeat mirrors a gaping difference between the parties regarding respect for our Constitution, American democratic norms and basic decency.

The Cheney strategy was an abject failure that added few if any votes to the Democratic total, alienated voters who had no taste for the former GOP representative’s neocon extremism, and stole precious time from an agonizingly short campaign schedule.