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John Nichols: Democrats should take 30-something candidates like Kelda Roys and Mandela Barnes seriously

The next Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin should be the candidate who best expresses what the author Michael Harrington used to describe as “the left wing of the possible” — a progressive who can win. It is entirely true that the candidate who best strikes this balance could be over 70 or under 40. But it is also true that the Democratic Party needs an infusion of young blood among the ranks of its candidates.

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Deborah Jordahl: Wisconsin’s Comey-over

As a longtime conservative strategist and consultant, I had a front row seat to what the Wisconsin Supreme Court called, “a perfect storm of wrongs,” visited upon people who are “wholly innocent of any wrongdoing.”

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Christian Schneider: Time to retire Social Security numbers

In the computer era, large swaths of Social Security numbers can be stolen, transmitted, used to steal an individual’s identity. This was never supposed to be the case; according to the Social Security Administration, the cards were “never intended to serve as a personal identification document.”

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Jeffery Roman and Sharlen Moore: Don’t wait to close Lincoln Hills

Whatever his real motivations are for proposing to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake in his fiscal year 2019 budget, Gov. Scott Walker has finally come around to the obvious conclusion that Wisconsin’s notoriously dangerous youth prisons — which lawsuits and federal investigations have repeatedly identified as abusive and obsolete — need to close.

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John Nichols: Democrats should take 30-something candidates like Kelda Roys and Mandela Barnes seriously

The next Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin should be the candidate who best expresses what the author Michael Harrington used to describe as “the left wing of the possible” — a progressive who can win. It is entirely true that the candidate who best strikes this balance could be over 70 or under 40. But it is also true that the Democratic Party needs an infusion of young blood among the ranks of its candidates.

Read More »

Deborah Jordahl: Wisconsin’s Comey-over

As a longtime conservative strategist and consultant, I had a front row seat to what the Wisconsin Supreme Court called, “a perfect storm of wrongs,” visited upon people who are “wholly innocent of any wrongdoing.”

Read More »

Christian Schneider: Time to retire Social Security numbers

In the computer era, large swaths of Social Security numbers can be stolen, transmitted, used to steal an individual’s identity. This was never supposed to be the case; according to the Social Security Administration, the cards were “never intended to serve as a personal identification document.”

Read More »

Jeffery Roman and Sharlen Moore: Don’t wait to close Lincoln Hills

Whatever his real motivations are for proposing to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake in his fiscal year 2019 budget, Gov. Scott Walker has finally come around to the obvious conclusion that Wisconsin’s notoriously dangerous youth prisons — which lawsuits and federal investigations have repeatedly identified as abusive and obsolete — need to close.

Read More »

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