While it is difficult to say that destruction of natural habits, global warming, and agriculture practices directly caused one specific pandemic, like Covid-19, each of these factors increases the probability that a virus will be shared amongst animals, gain the ability to infect humans, and cause severe, easily transmissible disease leading to an epidemic or pandemic. 

An open letter to Brett Favre and Tommy Tubberville.

There have been 49 homicides in Milwaukee since the beginning of 2021, and a staggering 92% of the victims (45 of the 49) were black. Not a single one was killed by a police officer.

Will Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, be allowed to game the redistricting process as he and his henchmen did a decade ago?

Lawmakers should listen to their voices and consider allowing more families to benefit from educational choice.

He once condemned Russia and Vladimir Putin. What explains the turnabout?

Only “socially disadvantaged” farmers may apply for the approximately $4 billion in loan-forgiveness money, which includes direct payments of up to 20 percent of the value of the loan. Specifically, only “Black/African American(s), American Indian(s) or Alaskan native(s), Hispanic(s) or Latino(s), or Asian American(s) or Pacific Islander(s),” need apply.

The greatest threat to liberal values isn’t any longer the Russian nuclear arsenal. It’s the dynamic Chinese economy.

The path forward on China will now be determined by a different circle of leaders and influencers in the Biden administration than the past four years. We will see them take a different approach to addressing much of what are the same threats and challenges with China.

WisPolitics.com, WisBusiness.com and the Wisconsin Technology Council hosted a panel discussion April 27, “Dealing with China: a panel discussion on U.S.-China relations under a Biden administration, focusing on national security, economics, and higher education.”

It’s time. He promised voters to prioritize reform bill in the first 100 days.

Mortgaging the future by combining trillions in new spending with a tax policy guaranteed to stifle future economic growth and subsequent tax revenue is thus the height of stupidity, but for Democratic presidents like Biden, it is sadly all too familiar.

Republicans are trying to make the case that Pres. Joe Biden has some how become a socialist. Good luck with that.

Vos should lead for all of Wisconsin. Circumstances have changed.

Jon Meacham’s “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush” is a well-written and thorough biography about an honorable man whose story is defined by a commitment to family and courage at key moments.

Ban on menthol cigarettes and the Black community.

Tens or even hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites enduring agonizing pain each day are begging for relief, and Republican leadership stands in the way. How much longer will they have to suffer?

You don’t need to carry the weight of the guilt of all that your predecessors did or of what some of your peers do today. Leave that baggage behind when you come into the diversity, equity and inclusion spaces.

While Gov. Tony Evers’ Department of Health Services and the Department of Public Instruction point fingers over the bureaucratic fiasco that left nearly 80,000 kids without federal meal assistance, untold numbers of children still are going without.