It has taken more than 50 years to get to the recent passage of a bill declaring Juneteenth a federal holiday.

If the For the People Act were the law of the land today, none of the Republican state legislators’ voter suppression schemes would be possible in Wisconsin or elsewhere.

The work of putting the Department of Justice fully and firmly on the side of press freedom is far from finished.

The supposed audit has been ridiculed across the land as not only a sham but a colossal waste of money.

With a changing of the guard in key positions at the University of Wisconsin, there is shaking and baking going on in favor of a system-wide strategic plan.

Funding our schools and supporting other critical needs of the state can happen concurrently.

Are you not aware that on July 4, 1776 over 600,000 Black people were in shackles? You call that Independence Day, but it certainly did not apply to almost every Black person in this country.

The big fear is that accurate representations of racial history in this nation will lead to overturning a social order based on historic racism.

The work is hard, the pay poor. Biden’s American Jobs Plan could help.

Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation are reviving the Scott Walker-era proposal to add lanes to Interstate 94 in the city of Milwaukee.

Democrats are growing anxious over their stalled agenda. There’s actually a lot they can still accomplish.

Republicans like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan fighting pro-Donald Trump forces deserve emphatic support from the left. Given the stakes, ideological differences pale in comparison.

With an unprecedented $5.87 billion budget surplus expected by the end of the upcoming biennium, Legislative Republicans’ proposal for a $3.4 billion tax cut makes perfect sense … which is why Governor Evers will almost certainly veto it.

Numbers don’t lie, but they sure can bamboozle you — particularly in an inflationary age.

Now that Amtrak has an actual ally in the White House, its unveiling some ambitious plans to extend the reach of rail to more of America, building on the success it has had in the Northeast.