Neighboring states saw even bigger drops under Obamacare since 2013.

State legislators are considering a new package of bills that dramatically would increase both the number of youths sentenced to prison and the length of time they spend at Lincoln Hills or Copper Lake, reversing years of work to reform the youth justice system for the better.

This reform will help us achieve universal coverage for everyone and is one of many paths we can take to expand coverage and lower health care costs.

What comes next for progressives has already started with this reminder of the power of the people. The resistance is working. The key next step is bringing this show of force into the voting booth.

Hurricane Harvey tested three basic tenets of right-wing, Republican ideology: Regulations are bad, we don’t have to worry about climate change, and the government is the problem. Right-wing beliefs failed massively on all three counts.

What everyone seems to forget is that the reason Houston, New Orleans and Miami are in line for such devastation from coastal storms is a direct result of man’s previous efforts to control nature.

All were supposed to solve transportation budget impasse. None did.

Assuming that it passes largely as currently written, which is expected, this budget is the muffled whimper that marks the end of Wisconsin’s conservative reformation.

The past five years have seen an unprecedented makeover in longstanding principles of state-level administrative law. These changes shift power away from agencies and toward courts, the legislature, and the governor.

The Menominee River on the Wisconsin-Michigan border has landed on a list of the 10 Most Endangered Rivers in the US because a Canadian firm is close to winning final approval to dig an open pit mine near the water’s edge which could release acid mine drainage downstream.

A conversation with author Thomas Frank, who will appear at Fighting Bob Fest Friday.

Two clear, simple things that can be done are ending the war on drugs and ending racial profiling within the police force.

Due to the delay by the Republican majority on Wisconsin’s state budget, none of our public schools has their resources set.

What if instead of betting the house on a company from Taiwan with a checkered history of actually delivering on job promises, we used taxpayer dollars in a manner that will help families and businesses across the state, not just in southeastern Wisconsin?

Last week, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced a new process that would alter some of the Obama era’s Title IX guidelines.