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The GOP-led congressional passage of the Big Beautiful Act is already an unpopular fiasco. The bill is polling badly because most Americans, including Wisconsinites, know it’s bad for them.
As someone who walks into families’ homes every week, I can tell you: The need is great, and the stakes are high. Our children deserve more than political uncertainty. They deserve a Head Start.
Mr. Kirk’s virtue laid in his willingness to pursue honest, peaceful, open debate with people of all sorts. He embodied one of the most crucial aspects of real Liberalism; an aspect which has allowed Western civilization to flourish. But with his death, now his admirers, and especially his opponents, are all the worse for having to live without him.
It’s possible to be repulsed by an act without canonizing its victim.
The evolving threat to American security
I was in Chicago last week while Donald Trump was making noises about sending federal troops to “declare war” on the nation’s third largest city — apparently his idea of how to tackle crime.
Nine months into a second Trump term that seems grimmer than most of us anticipated, Idea Fest presented some of the nation’s best minds exploring aspects of the national crisis.
The notion that AI technology could be programmed — for reasons of profiteering or politics — to deny or delay care for Medicare and Medicaid recipients has U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan concerned.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up congressional redistricting and whether Wisconsin will follow Texas, California and Missouri to create new partisan districts. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Charlie Kirk was engaged in free and open debate on the issues of our time where it mattered most: on our blinkered college campuses.
Charlie Kirk was a great American. He was passionate about his faith, family and freedom. Although his death is tragic, his legacy will live on; it must live on.
Less than 48 hours in, while we have seen examples of condolences or grief, too much of the discourse following Mr. Kirk’s death has amounted to points scored in an endless online game.
As soon as the news broke that Kirk was shot while on stage at Utah Valley University, Van Orden began a stream of increasingly unhinged social media posts blaming Democrats and the media for the murder and declaring “the gloves are off.”
Could governor soften his view of new federal channel for donors’ generosity?
For our Wisconsin businesses to thrive, we need a workforce that knows the languages of our partners, navigates cultural differences, and excels in building global partnerships.
The Supreme Court insists the Constitution is colorblind. But its ruling in a case about ICE roundups proves the opposite: it sees color very clearly.
Spirited policy debates should end with handshakes, not hatred.
It is time for our country and our leaders to go beyond simply decrying politically motivated violence. We must transform the nature of contemporary political disputes.
Right, Left, or neither, you know it’s an anxious time in our history. We all feel it, regardless of your opinion of the work of Charlie Kirk. Society is not irreparably broken. But we are in crisis.
We absolutely have to be unequivocal: Political violence can never be tolerated. This is not a partisan issue; it is a fundamental threat to the democratic process.
The GOP-led congressional passage of the Big Beautiful Act is already an unpopular fiasco. The bill is polling badly because most Americans, including Wisconsinites, know it’s bad for them.
As someone who walks into families’ homes every week, I can tell you: The need is great, and the stakes are high. Our children deserve more than political uncertainty. They deserve a Head Start.
Mr. Kirk’s virtue laid in his willingness to pursue honest, peaceful, open debate with people of all sorts. He embodied one of the most crucial aspects of real Liberalism; an aspect which has allowed Western civilization to flourish. But with his death, now his admirers, and especially his opponents, are all the worse for having to live without him.
It’s possible to be repulsed by an act without canonizing its victim.
The evolving threat to American security
I was in Chicago last week while Donald Trump was making noises about sending federal troops to “declare war” on the nation’s third largest city — apparently his idea of how to tackle crime.
Nine months into a second Trump term that seems grimmer than most of us anticipated, Idea Fest presented some of the nation’s best minds exploring aspects of the national crisis.
The notion that AI technology could be programmed — for reasons of profiteering or politics — to deny or delay care for Medicare and Medicaid recipients has U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan concerned.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up congressional redistricting and whether Wisconsin will follow Texas, California and Missouri to create new partisan districts. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Charlie Kirk was engaged in free and open debate on the issues of our time where it mattered most: on our blinkered college campuses.
Charlie Kirk was a great American. He was passionate about his faith, family and freedom. Although his death is tragic, his legacy will live on; it must live on.
Less than 48 hours in, while we have seen examples of condolences or grief, too much of the discourse following Mr. Kirk’s death has amounted to points scored in an endless online game.
As soon as the news broke that Kirk was shot while on stage at Utah Valley University, Van Orden began a stream of increasingly unhinged social media posts blaming Democrats and the media for the murder and declaring “the gloves are off.”
Could governor soften his view of new federal channel for donors’ generosity?
For our Wisconsin businesses to thrive, we need a workforce that knows the languages of our partners, navigates cultural differences, and excels in building global partnerships.
The Supreme Court insists the Constitution is colorblind. But its ruling in a case about ICE roundups proves the opposite: it sees color very clearly.
Spirited policy debates should end with handshakes, not hatred.
It is time for our country and our leaders to go beyond simply decrying politically motivated violence. We must transform the nature of contemporary political disputes.
Right, Left, or neither, you know it’s an anxious time in our history. We all feel it, regardless of your opinion of the work of Charlie Kirk. Society is not irreparably broken. But we are in crisis.
We absolutely have to be unequivocal: Political violence can never be tolerated. This is not a partisan issue; it is a fundamental threat to the democratic process.