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A strong body of scientific evidence: “Highly likely” that both genetics and environment contribute substantially to autism.

As long as we’re going to eat a pig’s rear, we might as well consider the rest of the animal and, in most cases, the miserable lives they are forced to endure before being slaughtered.

Once the envy of the world, our education system has been debased by the destructive culture of low expectations.

The pretense of election used as a hostile take over of Wisconsin’s democracy.

Recently, Wisconsin Watch revealed how members of the Wisconsin Legislature’s powerful budget committee secretly hold up projects or programs they don’t like.

For the better part of 70 years, the Observer has been not just the voice but the connecting tissue of Texas liberalism.

And underscores the ongoing hypocrisy of the GOP establishment

100-year-old woman fights back against censorship.

Artificial intelligence as a technology is here to stay. How it’s used for better or worse is the question.

The acrimonious Wisconsin Supreme Court election is about sharply different views about two fundamental rights, abortion and robust guardrails that protect democracy.

Unless we elect Judge Janet Protasiewicz to the Supreme Court on April 4, physician training on contraception will remain inadequate, resulting in more unwanted pregnancies and prompting medical students to look elsewhere for their education.

If Wisconsin’s state supreme court race is the most important election of the year, Dane County is the most important of the 72 counties.

The stakes could not be higher. And the contrast between the candidates could not be clearer.

Tortured words and their offspring named propaganda are the sticks and stones of culture warfare. They can break bones. The very ones that form the skeleton of the body politic, the substructure of a free and democratic society.

It’s only the top half of the first inning of the Trump indictment game, but his challengers for the GOP nomination have taken the early lead.

As New York prepares to arraign its most prominent chronic offender, a few things to ponder.

Another mass shooting a few days ago, this one in Nashville, Tenn., was disturbing enough. But even more disturbing were the stories out of Washington, D.C., describing an American Congress collectively shrugging its shoulders.

Bill Brash’s campaign email promises he will be a conservative, links him with Dan Kelly.

Vote “no” to referendum questions No. 1 and No. 2 to send the message that the wealthy of this country are not the only ones who should be able to await trial at home.

Cash bail is a flawed tool to preventatively detain people.

A strong body of scientific evidence: “Highly likely” that both genetics and environment contribute substantially to autism.

As long as we’re going to eat a pig’s rear, we might as well consider the rest of the animal and, in most cases, the miserable lives they are forced to endure before being slaughtered.

Once the envy of the world, our education system has been debased by the destructive culture of low expectations.

The pretense of election used as a hostile take over of Wisconsin’s democracy.

Recently, Wisconsin Watch revealed how members of the Wisconsin Legislature’s powerful budget committee secretly hold up projects or programs they don’t like.

For the better part of 70 years, the Observer has been not just the voice but the connecting tissue of Texas liberalism.

And underscores the ongoing hypocrisy of the GOP establishment

100-year-old woman fights back against censorship.

Artificial intelligence as a technology is here to stay. How it’s used for better or worse is the question.

The acrimonious Wisconsin Supreme Court election is about sharply different views about two fundamental rights, abortion and robust guardrails that protect democracy.

Unless we elect Judge Janet Protasiewicz to the Supreme Court on April 4, physician training on contraception will remain inadequate, resulting in more unwanted pregnancies and prompting medical students to look elsewhere for their education.

If Wisconsin’s state supreme court race is the most important election of the year, Dane County is the most important of the 72 counties.

The stakes could not be higher. And the contrast between the candidates could not be clearer.

Tortured words and their offspring named propaganda are the sticks and stones of culture warfare. They can break bones. The very ones that form the skeleton of the body politic, the substructure of a free and democratic society.

It’s only the top half of the first inning of the Trump indictment game, but his challengers for the GOP nomination have taken the early lead.

As New York prepares to arraign its most prominent chronic offender, a few things to ponder.

Another mass shooting a few days ago, this one in Nashville, Tenn., was disturbing enough. But even more disturbing were the stories out of Washington, D.C., describing an American Congress collectively shrugging its shoulders.

Bill Brash’s campaign email promises he will be a conservative, links him with Dan Kelly.

Vote “no” to referendum questions No. 1 and No. 2 to send the message that the wealthy of this country are not the only ones who should be able to await trial at home.

Cash bail is a flawed tool to preventatively detain people.