A military is designed to protect citizens, not to be weaponized by a president who is determined to centralize as much power as possible.

Republicans have created a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar hole in our state’s future budgets, on top of the nearly $70 million we’ll have to pay over the next two years.

With leftists firmly in control of the state’s court of last resort for the foreseeable future, Evers could go out with a leftist bang. He’s got nothing to lose.

With Gov. Tony Evers on his way out, the landscape for prison reform in the state has changed.

Separating them from their unions will require smart politics.

The attempt to limit speech through peer pressure risks turning campuses into surveillance states.

United Way-funded nonprofit pays $8 million over 4 years to top employees.

In conversations with vendors from Arizona to Iowa to Virginia, a continuous theme emerged and was expressed by those displaying their goods and promoting their services. Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting their businesses.

The rioters who ransacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, beat and killed law enforcement officers and stunned the world are free and unpunished. But the Justice Department lawyers and federal investigators who sought to make them pay for their crimes have lost their livelihoods, and several are having to hire lawyers to fight charges themselves.

Trump and Big Tech promise “human flourishing” in the UW System.

It’s only human to question the safety and potential economic disruption of inventions that test our ability to absorb the change, but history shows acceptance is widespread once benefits become clear. That may be the case with AI in time.

A new UW-Madison lab aims to help newsrooms develop in-house artificial intelligence tools that reflect their own values and needs.

As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, let us commit to telling complete stories—stories that acknowledge the full breadth of Latino identity, including those who carry African heritage alongside their Latino culture.

In order to deal with climate-driven threats, we must first recognize them. Urgently reducing greenhouse gas emissions and funding adaptation should be top priorities for every politician who cares about public health and the future we all share.

2025’s economic policy undermines the opportunities and security of Wisconsin’s workers.

Eight months into the Trump-Vance interregnum, Americans are becoming more and more aware of the fact that the Republicans were serious about the crazy concepts they spouted with regard to the economy, and about implementing their authoritarian fever dreams.

The question in my mind is not if the legislation will happen, but how many people will have to die before enough of us, regardless of political affiliation, demand sensible gun legislation.

The state’s Legislative Audit Bureau released last week its long-awaited audit of the state Department of Natural Resources’s Fish & Wildlife account, and, for those who bothered to read it, it was nothing short of eye-popping.

Republicans insist lakes are not human: ‘We need to be protecting the rights of people, not things’

From smallpox to polio to COVID-19, vaccination campaigns have averted millions of deaths and spared generations from suffering.