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Did Donald Trump learn his chaotic methods from Wisconsin’s own infamous Joe McCarthy?
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Did Donald Trump learn his chaotic methods from Wisconsin’s own infamous Joe McCarthy?

At the White House, Trump told reporters that the amount of fraudulent spending the task force could recover could help address a trillion-dollar national deficit and significantly reduce taxes.

America’s big failing right now is entrusting our country’s future to people who never were taught the folly of compounding errors, who’ve never had to grow the hell up.

Nationwide protest against Trump’s march toward authoritarianism Saturday could be the largest of its kind in the history of this country.

The program could be endangered although some legislators and Gov. Evers still think action can be done. Some legislators believe a compromise can be reached and voted on when they return to session in April.

Wisconsin environmentalists wouldn’t compromise, so the state’s premiere conservation program, the Stewardship Fund, will die this summer. It’s an old, sad story and it’s one reason that green policies, once widely popular and bipartisan, are now on the ropes.

Building a comprehensive solution to child care requires incremental progress forward, and this veto slowed it.

Gov. Tony Evers has an opportunity to take a meaningful step toward protecting children across your state. AB 105 will reduce exposure, interrupt harmful patterns and support efforts to keep children safe.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are expanding their footprint, both here in Wisconsin and across the nation. What started as a small, quiet fringe movement has ballooned into a powerful force within the Democratic Party.

Over the weekend, seven young people in Milwaukee were connected to firearms incidents. That number is not just a statistic, it’s a warning.

The abuses of Donald Trump’s second term inspired the rise of the No Kings movement, which this Saturday will fill the streets of Madison, Milwaukee, Medford, Monroe, Manitowoc, Marinette, Marshfield, Minocqua and as many as 3,000 other communities around Wisconsin and across the nation.

The proliferation of women in business, government and other sectors of society has been a driver of as well as reflection of extraordinary human advancement

This is not a legally meritorious challenge. Birthright citizenship has been constitutionally grounded for more than 150 years. It is not a serious policy debate. Rather, it is a symptom of how far the country has drifted from basic principles of equality and belonging.

Over 40% of first-year students already start as sophomores at UW-Madison.

This law will not affect whether more or fewer Wisconsinites espouse antisemitic views or boldly oppose this prejudice.

In a move that should alarm every Wisconsin resident who values free speech, academic freedom, and equal protection under the law, the Wisconsin legislature recently passed a bill that would enshrine the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism into law.

Trump and congressional Republicans said there was no money for the expired Affordable Care Act tax credits. But the money spent and requested for the costly and senseless Iran War would do so, guns vs. butter.

County supervisors are clueless that they are being used as patsies in a coordinated scheme by a taxpayer-funded lobbying machine, one that exists not to represent the public, but to represent government itself.

As soon as the Trump entourage took over, the first target was the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency created by the Dodd-Frank legislation to protect consumers from usurious interest rates, unconscionable checking account and overdraft fees, and give the government the ability to investigate corporate wrongdoing.

As the volume of records requests has swelled, so has the portion of those requests that are rejected or otherwise incomplete.

Did Donald Trump learn his chaotic methods from Wisconsin’s own infamous Joe McCarthy?

At the White House, Trump told reporters that the amount of fraudulent spending the task force could recover could help address a trillion-dollar national deficit and significantly reduce taxes.

America’s big failing right now is entrusting our country’s future to people who never were taught the folly of compounding errors, who’ve never had to grow the hell up.

Nationwide protest against Trump’s march toward authoritarianism Saturday could be the largest of its kind in the history of this country.

The program could be endangered although some legislators and Gov. Evers still think action can be done. Some legislators believe a compromise can be reached and voted on when they return to session in April.

Wisconsin environmentalists wouldn’t compromise, so the state’s premiere conservation program, the Stewardship Fund, will die this summer. It’s an old, sad story and it’s one reason that green policies, once widely popular and bipartisan, are now on the ropes.

Building a comprehensive solution to child care requires incremental progress forward, and this veto slowed it.

Gov. Tony Evers has an opportunity to take a meaningful step toward protecting children across your state. AB 105 will reduce exposure, interrupt harmful patterns and support efforts to keep children safe.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are expanding their footprint, both here in Wisconsin and across the nation. What started as a small, quiet fringe movement has ballooned into a powerful force within the Democratic Party.

Over the weekend, seven young people in Milwaukee were connected to firearms incidents. That number is not just a statistic, it’s a warning.

The abuses of Donald Trump’s second term inspired the rise of the No Kings movement, which this Saturday will fill the streets of Madison, Milwaukee, Medford, Monroe, Manitowoc, Marinette, Marshfield, Minocqua and as many as 3,000 other communities around Wisconsin and across the nation.

The proliferation of women in business, government and other sectors of society has been a driver of as well as reflection of extraordinary human advancement

This is not a legally meritorious challenge. Birthright citizenship has been constitutionally grounded for more than 150 years. It is not a serious policy debate. Rather, it is a symptom of how far the country has drifted from basic principles of equality and belonging.

Over 40% of first-year students already start as sophomores at UW-Madison.

This law will not affect whether more or fewer Wisconsinites espouse antisemitic views or boldly oppose this prejudice.

In a move that should alarm every Wisconsin resident who values free speech, academic freedom, and equal protection under the law, the Wisconsin legislature recently passed a bill that would enshrine the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism into law.

Trump and congressional Republicans said there was no money for the expired Affordable Care Act tax credits. But the money spent and requested for the costly and senseless Iran War would do so, guns vs. butter.

County supervisors are clueless that they are being used as patsies in a coordinated scheme by a taxpayer-funded lobbying machine, one that exists not to represent the public, but to represent government itself.

As soon as the Trump entourage took over, the first target was the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency created by the Dodd-Frank legislation to protect consumers from usurious interest rates, unconscionable checking account and overdraft fees, and give the government the ability to investigate corporate wrongdoing.

As the volume of records requests has swelled, so has the portion of those requests that are rejected or otherwise incomplete.