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Dave Zweifel: Still haggling over Build Back Better, but at least we got F-35s
Truthout’s William Rivers Pitt rightfully complains that as Congress keeps chipping away at Joe Biden’s Build Back Better proposal, the huge National Defense Authorization Act that once again increases the country’s military spending is treated as “must-pass” legislation.

Daniela Mansbach and Alisa Von Hagel: Anti-abortion bills get the ink while reproductive justice gets ignored
The failure to hold public hearings for pro-abortion rights bills in recent legislative sessions is not a new phenomenon.

Michael Graff and Nick Ochsner: Cries of election fraud in Wisconsin have a familiar echo
There are striking similarities between North Carolina’s Bladen County and what’s happening in Wisconsin right now.

Dan O’Donnell: The most dangerous man in America
Christopher Rufo is a threat to the left not only because he is exposing the radicalization of American institutions, but because he is arming Americans with the intellectual ability to reclaim them.

Bruce Thompson: How Republicans are killing their supporters
Right-wing anti-vaxxers help cause more deaths of Republicans nationally and in Wisconsin.

Dave Cieslewicz: Keep Manchin in the fold
He’s holding down a seat for the Democrats in a state that Donald Trump won by 39 points. Without Manchin there is no majority and no chance at all for Biden’s Build Back Better bill.

David Blaska: DPI teaching socialism, civil disobedience
The Department of Public Instruction is the seedbed of CRT in our public schools.

Dan Shafer: Costs rise for I-94 East-West project
Estimate for six-lane option grows by over 40%

Tommy Thompson: UW scientists, innovators poised to accelerate U.S. competitiveness
Early next year, I anticipate President Biden will sign a bipartisan bill that will jumpstart the nation’s investment in research. When that happens, the groundbreaking scientists and innovators within the University of Wisconsin System will be poised to capitalize.

Dave Zweifel: Book details Foxconn and the GOP’s fleecing of Wisconsin
Lawrence Tabak’s new book “Foxconned” is an illuminating expose of all that’s wrong with the way governments hand out incentives for private development.

Michael Cummins: The great fabrication
The Foxconn deal was an obvious fraud from the get-go.

Matthew Rothschild: Michael Gableman, ugly offspring of Spiro Agnew and Joe McCarthy
Gableman has neither the temperament nor the experience nor the impartiality to be involved in any way in examining our elections.

M.D. Kittle: Will Evers get ‘politically nasty’ in the ‘Chisholm situation’?
While he hides from questions about the “Chisholm situation,” if pressed Gov. Tony Evers could make life rough for any Milwaukee County resident who brings a complaint seeking Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm’s removal from office.

Ruth Conniff: Coming together in a polarized political atmosphere
If we are going to rebuild the trust, civil discourse and the sense of community that form the foundations of our democracy, we need to figure out how to get along better.

John Nichols: Today’s GOP would cast aside Bob Dole
Dole felt his party had a duty to support voting rights. But his colleagues in Congress today would rather punish those in the GOP who choose to defend democracy.

Dave Cieslewicz: A middle ground on abortion
Most of us, about half, think it should be legal in most, but not all, cases.

Bruce Murphy: Milwaukee County pension reforms have done little
Officials have often resisted reforms. Main relief has come from state passage of Act 10.

John Nichols: Ron Johnson’s crackpot criticism of Dr. Fauci is part of a deadly chorus of GOP misinformation
Ron Johnson and Ted Cruz are spreading the virus of disinformation and distrust to the detriment of American health, and American lives.

Andrew C. McCarthy: Prosecution and prejudice
We have prosecutors who won’t prosecute the ‘wrong’ people for their crimes and prosecutors hell-bent on prosecuting the ‘right’ people for what they symbolize.

Bruce Ledewitz: Stop calling Kyle Rittenhouse a hero
He killed two unarmed people.

Dave Zweifel: Still haggling over Build Back Better, but at least we got F-35s
Truthout’s William Rivers Pitt rightfully complains that as Congress keeps chipping away at Joe Biden’s Build Back Better proposal, the huge National Defense Authorization Act that once again increases the country’s military spending is treated as “must-pass” legislation.

Daniela Mansbach and Alisa Von Hagel: Anti-abortion bills get the ink while reproductive justice gets ignored
The failure to hold public hearings for pro-abortion rights bills in recent legislative sessions is not a new phenomenon.

Michael Graff and Nick Ochsner: Cries of election fraud in Wisconsin have a familiar echo
There are striking similarities between North Carolina’s Bladen County and what’s happening in Wisconsin right now.

Dan O’Donnell: The most dangerous man in America
Christopher Rufo is a threat to the left not only because he is exposing the radicalization of American institutions, but because he is arming Americans with the intellectual ability to reclaim them.

Bruce Thompson: How Republicans are killing their supporters
Right-wing anti-vaxxers help cause more deaths of Republicans nationally and in Wisconsin.

Dave Cieslewicz: Keep Manchin in the fold
He’s holding down a seat for the Democrats in a state that Donald Trump won by 39 points. Without Manchin there is no majority and no chance at all for Biden’s Build Back Better bill.

David Blaska: DPI teaching socialism, civil disobedience
The Department of Public Instruction is the seedbed of CRT in our public schools.

Dan Shafer: Costs rise for I-94 East-West project
Estimate for six-lane option grows by over 40%

Tommy Thompson: UW scientists, innovators poised to accelerate U.S. competitiveness
Early next year, I anticipate President Biden will sign a bipartisan bill that will jumpstart the nation’s investment in research. When that happens, the groundbreaking scientists and innovators within the University of Wisconsin System will be poised to capitalize.

Dave Zweifel: Book details Foxconn and the GOP’s fleecing of Wisconsin
Lawrence Tabak’s new book “Foxconned” is an illuminating expose of all that’s wrong with the way governments hand out incentives for private development.

Michael Cummins: The great fabrication
The Foxconn deal was an obvious fraud from the get-go.

Matthew Rothschild: Michael Gableman, ugly offspring of Spiro Agnew and Joe McCarthy
Gableman has neither the temperament nor the experience nor the impartiality to be involved in any way in examining our elections.

M.D. Kittle: Will Evers get ‘politically nasty’ in the ‘Chisholm situation’?
While he hides from questions about the “Chisholm situation,” if pressed Gov. Tony Evers could make life rough for any Milwaukee County resident who brings a complaint seeking Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm’s removal from office.

Ruth Conniff: Coming together in a polarized political atmosphere
If we are going to rebuild the trust, civil discourse and the sense of community that form the foundations of our democracy, we need to figure out how to get along better.

John Nichols: Today’s GOP would cast aside Bob Dole
Dole felt his party had a duty to support voting rights. But his colleagues in Congress today would rather punish those in the GOP who choose to defend democracy.

Dave Cieslewicz: A middle ground on abortion
Most of us, about half, think it should be legal in most, but not all, cases.

Bruce Murphy: Milwaukee County pension reforms have done little
Officials have often resisted reforms. Main relief has come from state passage of Act 10.

John Nichols: Ron Johnson’s crackpot criticism of Dr. Fauci is part of a deadly chorus of GOP misinformation
Ron Johnson and Ted Cruz are spreading the virus of disinformation and distrust to the detriment of American health, and American lives.

Andrew C. McCarthy: Prosecution and prejudice
We have prosecutors who won’t prosecute the ‘wrong’ people for their crimes and prosecutors hell-bent on prosecuting the ‘right’ people for what they symbolize.
