Contributions to the Wisconsin Idea across generations.

There is more evidence that Wisconsin’s obligation to protect the natural world needs a strong, principled revival.

AG condemns award for rehabilitated lawyer and State Bar caves in to Schimel’s complaint.

In the 9th circuit, animals are free to bring lawsuits.

The speaker was scrambling last Friday to create the impression that he forced Conroy out not for reasons of politics but because members felt their “pastoral needs” were not being met.

Seven men who run Ascension Health and make $40 million want to save money by slashing services at hospital.

The UW System wasn’t created to solely train our workforce, but to “serve and stimulate society” and “extend knowledge and its application beyond the boundaries of its campus.”

It is exceedingly difficult to label as racists the nearly 20 million white blue-collar workers who switched to vote for the first candidate who pretended to care about them. For they previously voted not just once, but twice, for Barack Obama.

GOP Senator Ron Johnson voted as a rubber stamp, approving all of Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin acted to carefully vet Trump’s nominees, often when it was clear that the White House had not done so.

A bill described by opponents as an assault on free speech, democracy, and on our constitutionally protected rights passed the Legislature, barring the state from contracting with companies that participate in an economic boycott of a repressive, apartheid government, Israel.

There is tension between a news organization’s desire for a high volume of stories against the need to invest much more time and energy in fewer high-value ones. Finding new business models to support this high-quality journalism is essential, and success stories have been few so far.

Gerrymandering denies us the most fundamental right that Americans have spent centuries fighting and dying for, and it’s time for this undemocratic practice to become a relic of the past.

Walker’s family-friendly tax cuts will fail to buy votes.

With a stubborn refusal to do anything about major cost drivers for the district – namely, pension and healthcare spending – MPS is staring down a $38 million deficit in the next year. That number balloons to nearly $200 million just a few years down the road.

NAEP results show notable progress in Chicago, but discouraging results here.

Buchanan’s animus toward the “democracy worshippers of the West” is something he has been nursing for years, but in a recent column, he made his position explicit, along with his admiration for authoritarian strong men like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. “The title the Ayatollah bestowed upon us, ‘The Great Satan,’ is not altogether undeserved,” he wrote.

The media attempt to make Macron a laughingstock backfired bigtime when he addressed a joint session of Congress Wednesday morning and in impeccable English carved out a place for himself as the true leader of the West.

Negotiations to end the Korean War would mean a discussion of how to withdraw some or all U.S. troops in South Korea; removing the threat to the U.S. of North Korea’s ICBMs; guaranteeing a status of peaceful coexistence on the Korean Peninsula; provisions for the security of Japan vis a vis North Korea, and accommodating the needs of China. The talks, if successful, will the stage for a future re-unification of Korea. This is the goal.