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Watching the decline of civilization in real time produces such overwhelming feelings of helplessness for some that they fear for their mental well-being. They’re curling up in a ball, not because they’re apathetic, because they’re feeling besieged and powerless.
Wisconsin’s nightmare could become America’s reality: elections for sale to the highest bidder, and citizens’ voices drowned out by billionaires’ checkbooks.
The state Supreme Court has created two panels to review the Republican-drawn maps.
Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance system still taxes paychecks like it’s 1932.
When Democrats talk about the need to keep making “health care affordable,” but only offer up more subsidies and government intervention, they’re not serious about lowering costs.
Blue bureaucrats and their political partners aren’t interested in open scientific inquiry; they are interested in protecting those special interests who insist vaccines can’t and don’t play a role in autism.
As we observe World AIDS Day, we remember a champion who transformed how America understood HIV and AIDS. Hydeia Broadbent, the pioneering activist who passed away in February 2024 at age thirty-nine, spent her entire life fighting stigma and bringing hope to millions affected by the epidemic.
Ever since the Paris Climate Accords in 2015, 1.5 degrees Celsius has been the temperature many scientists talk about as a threshold for global warming. Few thought we had already blown by 1.5, until recently.
This recent blockade is part of a much longer pattern: Israel’s restrictions on the movement of food into Gaza actually date back to 1991, well before Hamas came into power in 2006.
Wisconsin decided 112 years ago that the state had an obligation to right their wrongs when the justice system fails its citizens. We cannot give back the centuries taken from exonerees, but we can take a step to make things right.
Mandela Barnes carries forward the legacy of the modern Democratic Party of Nelson, Phillips and so many other progressive champions of economic, social and racial justice — a fact that Tiffany would do well to recognize, and respect.
As math proficiency continues to decline in Wisconsin schools, the Legislature is considering a plan to improve numeracy, or the ability to work with numbers in daily life.
My focus is on a hope that Democrats will offer candidates who can win in places Democrats hardly ever do. To me, that gives the country the best chance of reversing damage Trump has done.
It’s long past time for Trump and congressional Republicans to extend the ACA tax credits.
Instead of governing with civility and respect, Donald Trump has once again chosen a path of division and disdain.
Under the Trump administration, the U.S. government ordered the destruction of nearly $10 million worth of U.S.–funded contraceptives, based on the false claim that birth control is an “abortifacient.”
When a senator cannot muster even basic knowledge about a headline-making pardon or the courage to speak candidly, yet has endless energy for a culture-war grievance and the attacks on an aging American, it signals to this columnist that contempt for the public’s intelligence is on at full speed.
Given the fundamental values and ideals of our nation, seeking — and ideally, fulfilling — the role of committed peacemaker is directly in line with the human and egalitarian vales expressed brilliantly in our Declaration of Independence.
A new study informs strategies for talking with readers and donors.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider cases on the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s docket and other issues it may take up. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public leadership.
Watching the decline of civilization in real time produces such overwhelming feelings of helplessness for some that they fear for their mental well-being. They’re curling up in a ball, not because they’re apathetic, because they’re feeling besieged and powerless.
Wisconsin’s nightmare could become America’s reality: elections for sale to the highest bidder, and citizens’ voices drowned out by billionaires’ checkbooks.
The state Supreme Court has created two panels to review the Republican-drawn maps.
Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance system still taxes paychecks like it’s 1932.
When Democrats talk about the need to keep making “health care affordable,” but only offer up more subsidies and government intervention, they’re not serious about lowering costs.
Blue bureaucrats and their political partners aren’t interested in open scientific inquiry; they are interested in protecting those special interests who insist vaccines can’t and don’t play a role in autism.
As we observe World AIDS Day, we remember a champion who transformed how America understood HIV and AIDS. Hydeia Broadbent, the pioneering activist who passed away in February 2024 at age thirty-nine, spent her entire life fighting stigma and bringing hope to millions affected by the epidemic.
Ever since the Paris Climate Accords in 2015, 1.5 degrees Celsius has been the temperature many scientists talk about as a threshold for global warming. Few thought we had already blown by 1.5, until recently.
This recent blockade is part of a much longer pattern: Israel’s restrictions on the movement of food into Gaza actually date back to 1991, well before Hamas came into power in 2006.
Wisconsin decided 112 years ago that the state had an obligation to right their wrongs when the justice system fails its citizens. We cannot give back the centuries taken from exonerees, but we can take a step to make things right.
Mandela Barnes carries forward the legacy of the modern Democratic Party of Nelson, Phillips and so many other progressive champions of economic, social and racial justice — a fact that Tiffany would do well to recognize, and respect.
As math proficiency continues to decline in Wisconsin schools, the Legislature is considering a plan to improve numeracy, or the ability to work with numbers in daily life.
My focus is on a hope that Democrats will offer candidates who can win in places Democrats hardly ever do. To me, that gives the country the best chance of reversing damage Trump has done.
It’s long past time for Trump and congressional Republicans to extend the ACA tax credits.
Instead of governing with civility and respect, Donald Trump has once again chosen a path of division and disdain.
Under the Trump administration, the U.S. government ordered the destruction of nearly $10 million worth of U.S.–funded contraceptives, based on the false claim that birth control is an “abortifacient.”
When a senator cannot muster even basic knowledge about a headline-making pardon or the courage to speak candidly, yet has endless energy for a culture-war grievance and the attacks on an aging American, it signals to this columnist that contempt for the public’s intelligence is on at full speed.
Given the fundamental values and ideals of our nation, seeking — and ideally, fulfilling — the role of committed peacemaker is directly in line with the human and egalitarian vales expressed brilliantly in our Declaration of Independence.
A new study informs strategies for talking with readers and donors.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider cases on the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s docket and other issues it may take up. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public leadership.
