Protesters like to claim they are “speaking truth to power.” That’s both noble and heroic. It is also rare, because speaking the truth requires knowing the truth. And knowledge is gained not by joining the crowd chanting slogans but by taking time to talk and to listen, questioning, debating, reading, and reflecting. It is a slow, arduous and ultimately rewarding process. It is called education.

To judge by media coverage — especially prominent due to the strong visuals of tent encampments and tensions between protesters and officials — one might infer that Gaza is foremost among political concerns this spring.

Former Beloit Daily News Editor Bill Barth sees echoes of the Vietnam War protest movement in today’s campus protests over the Isreal-Gaza war.

Blogger Gregory Humphrey chides Columbia University for blocking press access to protests. He also criticizes protesters’ demands journalists get protesters’ permission to photograph them.

The “outside agitator” meme is invoked to absolve — or, at least, mitigate — your tribe of accountability. That’s a cop out.

After insisting that she would only meet with protesters after they had voluntarily decamped, she met with them yesterday anyway. Why on earth is she rewarding this kind of behavior?

Robert Reich, President Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor during the ’90s, notes that since the Reagan, Bush and Trump tax cuts, wealthy Americans have financed the federal government mainly by lending it money and collecting interest payments on those loans — “profiting when the rest of us pay them back.”

We are a nation at a crossroads in need of prayer.

Injecting new ideas and forcing the major parties to incorporate a wider array of interests remain the most tangible results of minor-party and independent campaigns.

Tax dollars should fund election administration, and election workers should be paid for their vital efforts. It is now up to the Legislature to make sure the funding exists to make that happen in both ordinary and extraordinary election years, whether that’s due to a novel coronavirus or a not-so-novel economic downturn.

With a particular focus on key swing areas like Green Bay and Brown County, La Crosse and Eau Claire, and the Milwaukee area suburbs.

The fake electors in Nevada, Georgia, and Arizona who nearly overturned the 2020 presidential election are now facing criminal charges. We have no clue if the State of Wisconsin will press criminal charges against our slate of fake electors.

Haberman family members have long drawn salaries from local foundation.

In recent years, activists have started to get more militant as they face delays and opposition to changes they feel are essential to save the environment.

“It’s good for the environment!” and better for shareholders.

Our Wisconsin congressional delegation needs to know our state has unique attributes that highlight the fact that a one-step solution does not exist.

Thanks to Biden’s affordable clean energy plan, we have even more ways to invest in our students and our future.

Why Tammy Baldwin will win in November.

As Jewish students are taunted on campus, as protesters shamelessly call for peace while chanting for intifada, as protesters harass students with visible Jewish clothing and symbols, I can no longer remain silent about what our students have been experiencing on Milwaukee’s campuses, and I can no longer accept the silence of university administrations.

Leaders who serve Wisconsin agriculture should spend some time carefully discussing and perhaps rethinking the risk connected to the state’s mandate that requires training and certification for 12- and 13-year-olds who operate tractors and their implements and large self-propelled machines on public roads.