In a trend spanning multiple levels of government and political parties, public officials are increasingly avoiding answering inconvenient questions about matters of public concern.

When funding is slashed, it’s not just music or art that disappears. It’s opportunity, dignity and confidence in the ideal of education for all. When that commitment cracks, it’s not just the vulnerable who fall through. It’s every student.

In its reticence to act, Wisconsin is not avoiding some moral panic or ineffective fad. It’s falling behind an urgent trend for the good of students.

PragerU bought a full page ad in the New York Times with 34 questions that make up its so-called ‘woke’ teacher screening test.

Police AWOL as mobs go wild on downtown Milwaukee streets

Wisconsin native Sean Duffy, transportation secretary and acting NASA administrator, recently issued a directive for the United States to “move quickly” on building reactors on the moon before “terrestrial rivals” beat America to it.

There are six excellent Idea Fest sessions, three produced by event sponsors, that can be viewed for free.

he Capital Times Idea Fest kicks off next Monday. This weeklong program is not a robust contest of ideas like Bill Buckley once hosted on his televised Firing Line. More like a Members Only, progressive treehouse.

Six candidates, including two for governor, appear at corn roast. How did their messages vary?

Flooding city streets with troops may provide a fleeting sense of order, but it does little to address the root causes of crime, which include poverty, lack of opportunity, systemic inequities, inadequate healthcare systems, and the erosion of trust between communities and law enforcement.

Someday, the Wisconsin Legislature will bail out Madison’s public schools from their financial profligacy and order the reinstatement of school police resource officers, like it did in Milwaukee. Not enough. The answer is to arm school staff. Concealed carry.

At the local level, at least three actions stand out. One, harden targets where children congregate to make it tougher to get access. Two, hire armed guards. Three, make better access to mental healthcare a priority in an effort to flag potential threats.

It’s time for city leaders to take notice that the office of the Independent Police Monitor is simply serving itself at the taxpayers’ expense.

Over the past decade or so, radical environmentalists have employed a rather far-fetched and some would say infantile legal strategy to short-circuit the democratic process and impose by judicial fiat its extreme carbon-free agenda: climate lawsuits ostensibly led by children.

Trump is doing virtually everything imaginable to accelerate global warming.

Communication that matters is not about winning the hour. It is about showing our humanity and building trust that lasts. Say the hard thing when you need to. Then say the human thing because you should.

Since before its official statehood, Hispanic Americans have lived and worked in Wisconsin, enriching the economic, social, and cultural climates of our great state.

In the first six months since he’s returned to office Donald Trump has made it his mission to destroy time-honored American institutions, and the Smithsonian has become the latest target.

Expanded candidate pool, increased accountability would benefit city.

Despite public support for labor unions currently reaching levels not seen in decades, particularly among younger workers, efforts to undermine unions and union organizing continue.