Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has it just right. Which makes him an unlikely ally for those who have been saying for years Wisconsin should allow the people to weigh in definitively on some of the state’s most contentious issues.

Mandela Barnes wants to bring them back.

The city of Milwaukee presents another budget with cuts to the police force.

The state polls released since Labor Day, in contrast with those released earlier this summer, have tended to show Republicans in a somewhat healthier position in key Senate races.

For Biden, a month of woes, then a suspicious surge of popularity.

Enthusiasm for royalty often gives way to enthusiasm for elitist arrangements in our economics and our politics.

My Republican colleagues have been suspiciously quiet this summer about two proposals they floated near the end of session that would take more from Wisconsin consumers and taxpayers.

This is the summer that the climate chickens came home to roost.

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Evers is trying to do what voters want him to do with the surplus. Unfortunately, he has been stonewalled by Republicans playing political games and trying to hurt the governor before the election in November.

Both Johnson and Michels are claiming their opponents, Barnes and Evers, are in favor of defunding the police.

I thought I was prepared for the ugly and racist ads that I figured the Republicans would be throwing at Mandela Barnes, but it’s just been disgusting to see.

Johnson pulls ahead of Barnes; Michels, Beglinger support tops Evers.

Breaking down races for governor and senator in this crucial swing state.

Evers and Barnes say they will honor November results. Michels and Johnson refuse to say.

I know this opinion runs the risk of not aging well, but I’m thinking our times have a lot more in common with 1927 than 1860.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, the “report card” that tells us how our students are doing, showed the devastation that overextended school shutdowns, quarantines, and substitute teachers wrought on students.

Republican governors in Arizona, Texas and Florida are using human beings to score political points.

Central to a solid November win for Barnes is increasing his support in rural Wisconsin.

Johnson is clearly terrified of offending even a sliver of the right — even if that means being held hostage by a shrinking minority of his own base.