These workers were deemed essential only to ensure that white America could continue its routines uninterrupted during a crisis. Now, stripped of that temporary necessity, they are recast as expendable. That is not just political opportunism, it is a reflection of a deeper rot in the national character.

Political loyalty must never supersede competence.

While there’s more I wish he’d been able to do throughout his time as governor, Evers was at least always a reliable bulwark against the worst excesses of the right-wing’s anti-LGBTQ crusade.

Eau Claire’s new zoning code will enhance housing flexibility and affordability by reducing restrictions and allowing diverse dwelling types. Hopefully, the rest of Wisconsin will follow suit and liberalize the land market.

My neighbors and I found community among carnage.

Facial recognition technology is developing faster than we can study and understand it. We cannot turn to it simply because it is a free tool available to the Milwaukee Police Department.

Maya Payne Smart, a renowned literacy advocate and author of “Reading for Our Lives,” challenges us to move beyond the traditional “bedtime story” approach to literacy.

The new Milwaukee museum is likely to be miserable.

Every day we learn of new heartless attacks on immigrants. Federal agents frequently grab people who are in the U.S. legally. Families are torn about. Children, legal residents of the U.S., are left without parents.

How many candidates will run? The list looks long.

Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski could easily have run for the Democratic nomination to replace retiring Gov. Tony Evers. Instead, she’s opted to run for lieutenant governor, which is a smart move for her and good news for Wisconsin Democrats as they prepare for the definitive elections of 2026.

Your elected leaders have a responsibility to take bold policy measures to protect our food security, and you have my commitment to do just that.

Horvath, a rural Shawano County native, was in the rare company of those who are able to turn their vision into reality.

With this final dredging push, Milwaukee’s waterways are poised to be removed from the national list of toxic hotspots — a milestone worth celebrating.

For decades, we thought of cancer as a disease of aging. But that assumption no longer reflects reality.

A lawsuit by Wisconsin Dairy Alliance and the Venture Dairy Cooperative has spotlighted yet another tactic progressives use to bypass democratic governance.

Free speech is a wonderful American value, but with it comes responsibility.

Regardless of how Trump wishes to abolish ‘wokeness,’ the fabric of our nation’s history remains touched by the bloodshed from Black and brown bodies that has yet to be made whole to this day.

Not for the first time, I stress that what is happening to a very troubling degree is more than Donald Trump’s autocratic ambitions. What should stir our righteous indignation is the institutional surrender that has enabled him.

Politics, history, medicine: Idea Fest’s Wednesday night lineup is one you will not want to miss.