There was a time when environmental protection was a shared ethic amongst Democrats and Republicans.

Sure, some people will gnash their teeth if their special perks are tampered with. But from a broader tax policy standpoint, this is the right thing to do, and if presented correctly, the smart thing to do from a political standpoint.

Actually his fire fighter cuts will probably have no impact on safety.

Tax cuts will cost trillions. Despite Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s claims, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

Madison columnist Emily Mills and gun rights advocate Nik Clark, the founder of Wisconsin Carry, share two perspectives about what the U.S. should do, if anything, about guns.

Schimel-Pruitt are a solid chamber of commerce tag team when it comes to rolling back clean air and water protections.

Quantifying partisan makeup through a single formula is like trying to judge a baseball team simply through analytics and statistics.

In the world of Scott Walker, politics, not the public’s long-term interest, always comes first.

The case should have gone through the state court system using state constitutional arguments.

State personal income growth trails nation, but that means more federal funds for Medicaid.

Facebook and social media in general have developed an unprecedented power that governments and their citizens are finally seeing not as a salvation but as a threat.

Too many judges, too many indigent jailed. Reform long overdue.

Republicans never had an actual plan. Bernie Sanders might learn from that.

The latest effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is emblematic of deep political divisions over how best to provide health-care coverage to millions of Americans. However, that debate is not standing in the way of hospitals, medical professionals, insurers, entrepreneurs and others from working on better, more efficient ways to care for patients.

An important part of our commitment is to the young adults in this state. We want a significant share of Wisconsin’s top high school students to come and study at UW- Madison, so I want to be clear about how strong our commitment is to the top students in Wisconsin.

It’s not every day that a congressman from Kentucky and a farmer from Wisconsin ignite a national conversation on a specific issue. However, when it comes to industrial hemp no two states are more historically intertwined.

State requirements for nurses, plumbers, CPAs and other jobs could be scrapped.