Four months into the epidemic, the problems caused by weak connections or no weak connections at all are even more pronounced in rural Wisconsin, where students faced barriers to online education, patients didn’t have access to telemedicine services, and businesses couldn’t reach customers no longer able to show up in person.

Milwaukee Congresswoman Gwen Moore is hoping that she can get Congress to award an all Black Women’s Army Corps unit known as the “Six Triple Eight” a Congressional Gold Medal for its overseas service during World War II.

Fire her! 20,000 people declared, after her Facebook post is misconstrued.

We are witnessing the urgency of seizing this moment and committing ourselves to creating a new system of education where a child’s race is not a predictor of success or failure in our schools. This predictability inherent in our current system means the system must change—we must change.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson was skewered by his fellow conservatives after he proposed a substitute amendment ostensibly crafted to swap Columbus Day for Juneteenth Day on the crowded list of federal holidays.

What is needed at a minimum is health care coverage for all Americans.

The solution to hyper-segregation in K-12, the MPS board now realizes aloud, must be regional — not just within its own public school system but by motivating a regional army.

We can reopen the economy if we just be smart. Why so many behave otherwise is a question I’m afraid future generations will be asking many years from now.

I understand the argument that white Madison has failed to put its money where its mouth is and that comfortable older liberals secretly prefer the status quo. Well, Tim was both — comfortable and old — yet he fought the good fight right to the finish line. Madison has many like him, which gives me hope.

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement goes into effect today after years of hard-fought negotiation on the part of President Trump and Republicans.

We are one people, conceived in the liberty that we have always defended and dedicated to the proposition that we can, together as we always have, fight the eternal fight for a more perfect union.

Today, just as we must imagine a world without police, we must also imagine a world without prisons — a world where, instead of locking people in cages, we can provide them with the treatment, services, and support they need to live and thrive in their communities.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin changed history by creating empathy for the plight of the slave.

When I think about the community’s relationship to the Madison Police Department over the last decade, one thing stands out. Local activists and too many local officials have taken correct observations about the history of policing in America and about the culture of departments in other cities and applied them inappropriately to Madison.

Wisconsin’s job market was bruised but not broken by the coronavirus pandemic. We have rounded the corner, and are already participating in the great American comeback.

While Congress and the Administration weighs a new funding package to respond to COVID-19, they should keep in mind the special needs of America’s seniors and those within immune-compromised communities, and focus on a “super-vaccine” that will ramp-up T-cell protection for our most vulnerable citizens.