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Ever since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, and especially following his 2020 defeat, there are those who have argued that what is transpiring in the United States is analogous in many ways to the rise of fascism in Italy and Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Hamas’ brutality is so clear that it demands condemnation in the clearest, strongest terms. Those who hedge on their condemnation, much less actually find those attacks justified, are just wrong.
The Supreme Court’s orchestrated attack on a direct constitutional power of a co-equal branch of government is why constitutional checks were created.
“If you read Justice Rebecca G. Bradley’s dissent to taking this case, she invokes ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ but it is her dissent in which you do indeed go ‘through the looking glass.'”
We can’t keep running to the edge of a fiscal cliff only to get a 45 day reprieve each budget cycle. Government is supposed to work.
Providing a tax-free retirement and tax relief to our the middle-class is the best way to provide relief from all of the increases in the costs of living that you are managing every day.
What we’ve got here is a standoff between two stubborn parties with inmates and prison employees caught in the middle, a very dangerous place to be when we’re talking about maximum security prisons.
Conservatives have been claiming for decades that the University of Wisconsin-Madison is brainwashing young people to make them liberals. The problem with that claim is that some of the most right-wing figures in American politics are UW grads.
Using Black people to discredit CRT shows you just how low opponents will go to get their point across.
Automation and adoption of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence are among strategies a growing number of manufacturers are pursuing as they aspire to improve productivity, tap new markets and grow their bottom lines.
It’s getting harder and harder for journalists to avoid working while on ‘vacation’
The Capital Times blames crooked maps for the 64-36 advantage Republicans enjoy in Iowa’s lower house despite Iowa’s vaunted non-partisan redistricting system.
Families in Wisconsin are grappling with the task of finding nearby, affordable day care providers with openings, and day care providers across the state report that they are understaffed and underpaid.
This September, the Senate made its mark on state history by successfully overriding three of the governor’s vetoes.
Assault weapon brought with demand to see Gov. Evers. Time for red flag law.
The racist history of America’s military.
GOP nihilists and Trump acolytes, including Wisconsin U.S. Reps. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom Tiffany, Derrick Van Orden and Senator Ron Johnson, are abandoning Ukraine.
Let’s get something straight. When the extremist Republicans, including Rep. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin, push to cut off military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, they become allies of Vladimir Putin.
Victor Fuchs, who was a Stanford University economist, is credited with awakening Americans to the inefficiencies of its health care system, if indeed you can still call it that.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, detail the legislative debate over how to use the state’s projected $4 billion budget surplus, from tax cuts to funding child care and schools. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Ever since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, and especially following his 2020 defeat, there are those who have argued that what is transpiring in the United States is analogous in many ways to the rise of fascism in Italy and Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Hamas’ brutality is so clear that it demands condemnation in the clearest, strongest terms. Those who hedge on their condemnation, much less actually find those attacks justified, are just wrong.
The Supreme Court’s orchestrated attack on a direct constitutional power of a co-equal branch of government is why constitutional checks were created.
“If you read Justice Rebecca G. Bradley’s dissent to taking this case, she invokes ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ but it is her dissent in which you do indeed go ‘through the looking glass.'”
We can’t keep running to the edge of a fiscal cliff only to get a 45 day reprieve each budget cycle. Government is supposed to work.
Providing a tax-free retirement and tax relief to our the middle-class is the best way to provide relief from all of the increases in the costs of living that you are managing every day.
What we’ve got here is a standoff between two stubborn parties with inmates and prison employees caught in the middle, a very dangerous place to be when we’re talking about maximum security prisons.
Conservatives have been claiming for decades that the University of Wisconsin-Madison is brainwashing young people to make them liberals. The problem with that claim is that some of the most right-wing figures in American politics are UW grads.
Using Black people to discredit CRT shows you just how low opponents will go to get their point across.
Automation and adoption of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence are among strategies a growing number of manufacturers are pursuing as they aspire to improve productivity, tap new markets and grow their bottom lines.
It’s getting harder and harder for journalists to avoid working while on ‘vacation’
The Capital Times blames crooked maps for the 64-36 advantage Republicans enjoy in Iowa’s lower house despite Iowa’s vaunted non-partisan redistricting system.
Families in Wisconsin are grappling with the task of finding nearby, affordable day care providers with openings, and day care providers across the state report that they are understaffed and underpaid.
This September, the Senate made its mark on state history by successfully overriding three of the governor’s vetoes.
Assault weapon brought with demand to see Gov. Evers. Time for red flag law.
The racist history of America’s military.
GOP nihilists and Trump acolytes, including Wisconsin U.S. Reps. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom Tiffany, Derrick Van Orden and Senator Ron Johnson, are abandoning Ukraine.
Let’s get something straight. When the extremist Republicans, including Rep. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin, push to cut off military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, they become allies of Vladimir Putin.
Victor Fuchs, who was a Stanford University economist, is credited with awakening Americans to the inefficiencies of its health care system, if indeed you can still call it that.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, detail the legislative debate over how to use the state’s projected $4 billion budget surplus, from tax cuts to funding child care and schools. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
