A frank conversation excerpted from the Badger Institute’s podcast series, Free Exchange.

On Thursday, my YouTube channel was suspended for one week after I posted an interview with Johnson in which he voiced opposition to both President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and the FDA’s pending approval of the vaccine for use in 5- to 11-year-old children.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu unveiled the new maps they’ve cooked up to keep themselves in power for another 10 years.

The Republican redistricting plan is disappointing, in the extreme. It is a hyper partisan concoction specifically designed to ensure uninterrupted control of both chambers of the Wisconsin Legislature throughout the next decade until 2031 and beyond.

Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who seems to have disappeared from his “work” as Gov. Tony Evers’ second in command to campaign full-time for U.S. Senate, has been hitting the fundraiser circuit hard.

Two hundred miles south of the Wisconsin border on the University of Illinois campus, a $200-million initiative announced Oct. 19 offered ample evidence that our neighbors are gearing up to compete for an infusion of federal science and technology money.

Gov. Tony Evers and his lackeys have told some tall tales over the Democrat’s tenure in office, but their audacious victory lap on Wisconsin’s record state budget surplus is a doozy.

Now Democrats must decide if they are going to push to abolish the filibuster to secure voting rights.

White liberals with college degrees care more about race and have a more dim view of race relations than African Americans.

The outrage that so many parents and community members are feeling is the realization that many of our government schools no longer consider themselves accountable to the people.

The Kenosha Innovation Neighborhood would combine an innovation center; a charter school for science, tech, engineering and math students; a presence by four regional colleges; housing; retail; green space; new streets and more.

The Peoples Commission regurgitated three failed and flawed Democratic features from past redistricting cycles: 1) Decimation of municipal boundaries; 2) Disregard for communities of interest; and 3) Failure on Voting Rights Act.

Michael Gableman likening the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to Russia’s communist-run newspaper, Pravda, was a delicious connection to the days of another unhinged Wisconsin Republican.

I really want to ask Republican legislative leadership, is Gableman really the best you had to offer for this process?

Bernie Sanders is not going to let Democrats downsize their vision for the future without a fight.

The sad reality is that the supply-chain crisis is but one facet of Biden’s utterly ruinous fiscal policy.

When Blue Cross went public 20 years ago, the Blue Cross board gave away its full value — then over more than $600 million. Those dollars were donated for public health purposes and education.

The high stakes redistricting process is underway in Wisconsin. This literally has the potential to be a winner take all game, if not done fairly and correctly.

Unfortunately, Wisconsin has no real protection against abuses by Vos and his cronies.

Had we just world enough and time, Manchin, we could afford to play these games. You of all senators should realize that. The time is ripe to do something.