The theologian and veteran Vatican watcher Rich Raho, who has met the new pope, announced, “In Pope Leo we can expect a social justice warrior.”

A healthy democracy relies on process, balance, and respect for the distinct roles each branch of government plays. When one branch chooses to override the others, the result isn’t policy progress. It’s a warning sign.

Extending Medicaid coverage to 12 months postpartum is a commonsense, life-saving step that would benefit families across our rural, suburban and urban communities.

Van Orden is more interested in theatrics to obscure his votes than protecting the Medicaid coverage of 152,900 in the 3rd CD.

Turning Point’s assertions that they would do so much better running RPW are totally unfounded, disingenuous, and self-serving.

Recent reports about harassment of tribal spear fishermen exerting their treaty rights brought memories of the spring of 1988.

Society can no longer abide with deaths and tragedies due to willfully stupid and selfish gun owners. A 3-year-old girl would be alive if common sense had been employed.

Would the felony charges against him have been filed in a less progressive jurisdiction than Dane County?

As of April 2024, only 25 states in the U.S. mandate free access to menstrual products in correctional facilities. Wisconsin is not one of them.

Black businesses need us to show up! … Trump’s so-called Liberation Day threatens to return Black entrepreneurs to an employer’s figurative plantation.

John Skilton, one of Madison’s most celebrated attorneys, dropped me a note earlier this week to which he attached the recent ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell that declared in strong terms that Donald Trump’s action targeting the Perkins Coie law firm is clearly unconstitutional.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is former head of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, ideally suited by experience and calm temperament to deal effectively with President Donald Trump.

The U.S. Postal Service he founded has become — let’s try to say this without profanity — a stumbling mess.

But Wisconsin politicians continue to leave state taxpayers on the hook.

As the Legislature begins working on the Wisconsin State Budget, a dangerous idea to give school vouchers their own separate line item could become a huge drain on resources.

During my career I experienced several examples where local people had more information than the government.

Small businesses are the fuel that keeps Wisconsin’s economic engine running. Our state’s elected leaders in Washington should support the Credit Card Competition Act to help Main Streets across the state.

Questions we never expected to see asked in The Capital Times: “Progressives have full control of the city and its schools. Is it for the better?” Figures that it is a freelance journalist, not a CT staffer, posing the question — Marc Eisen, formerly editor of Isthmus.

Trump reminds me of a Copperhead. They were Northerners on the wrong side of the Civil War, favoring the Confederacy.