Republicans’ short-term success in rural areas—like Wisconsin farm country, where I’m from—can distract from the need for a long-term rural policy agenda that can outlast the appeal of Trump, or any one personality.

Republican attack ads have been vicious this year — especially the ads that portray Barnes, the first Black Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, as “dangerous” and “different.”

Of all the sleazy tricks pulled this election season one of the sleaziest appears to be an effort by a phony “patriot” group to get Wisconsin conservatives to vote for a former independent candidate for governor who backs Republican Tim Michels.

Cieslewicz writes about bellwether races to watch as results come in.

When we awake on November 9th, the real work begins.

A large body of research makes clear that reducing state-level income tax rates — yes, including for those at the top — is an effective way to boost pre-tax incomes across the board because of the more robust economic activity that takes place in the wake of such reforms.

Controversy surrounding Hillsdale charter schools led the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University in Wisconsin to threaten to sever ties last month with Lake Country Classical Academy — Wisconsin’s first Hillsdale-affiliated charter school.

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, after considerable conflict, gives the colorful capitalist an opportunity to change the notoriously dictatorial social media giant.

Refusing to accept election results and to work with the political opposition are dangerous precedents that pose an existential risk to our democracy and to the Wisconsin Idea both at home and throughout the nation.

Because it really matters.

They are both captives of Donald Trump’s new Republican Party and deserve to be defeated in tomorrow’s election.

A champion of education funding, helping our schools’ national ranking rise. Tim Michels would take us backward.

Even us Trump apostates support Tim Michels and Ron Johnson!

Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes and Gov. Tony Evers are both pragmatists who understand government at its best solves problems.

Gov. Evers wants local governments to be allowed to increase their tax levies by a minimum of 2 percent, even if there wasn’t enough net new construction to justify it. That means everyone’s property taxes would go up to fill that gap.

It’s clear that all of this aggressive voting is not a sign of civic health. Quite the opposite. We were a stronger, better and happier democracy when turnout was low and people griped that there just wasn’t much difference between the two parties.

As we pack our polling places around Wisconsin and the nation, make sure to say “thank you” to the folks who are doing their civic duty to ensure this essential function of democracy runs smoothly.

As Milwaukee’s No. 2 elections official faces charges in the city’s latest election scandal, the lawmaker she targeted is asking a critical question: Why would Kimberly Zapata risk her job, her excellent benefits, her freedom, when she could have just stepped forward with her concerns?

But “red wave” potential looms in Wisconsin.