Somebody should have told Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, that it’s better to be thought a racist than to open his mouth and remove all doubt.

Maybe the only way out of the now longest-ever partial government shutdown would be for Trump to exercise what he thinks is his power to declare a national emergency.

It may seem to Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly that having been gerrymandered into the minority, it is impossible to soon become the majority. But the impossible in politics is often the inevitable.

It’s increasingly clear that Wisconsin has reduced substantially its relative support for state transportation needs. What is less clear is how or whether the current governor and legislature will respond.

Wildlife columnist Patricia Randolph spotlighted the incredibly cruel practice of organized predator-killing contests throughout the country, including over a dozen right here in Wisconsin.

More than 50 years ago, at a point when the Republican Party of Wisconsin had taken a turn toward extremism that threatened to divide the state along the ugliest and most destructive lines, Bill Kraus and a brave band of political visionaries saved their party and their state.

The partial government shutdown, initiated by Trump, is the longest in U.S. history.

While there are a number of suggestions in the commission’s 16-page document that could be beneficial to education in Wisconsin, it seems that another opportunity for bold reform has been passed up.

The 345-kilovolt line, complete with towers as tall as a 17-story building, would run from Dubuque’s Hickory Creek terminal to the Cardinal substation located near Middleton.

There should be no mistake concerning the importance of allowing the educational process to help students evolve from their hometown views into the expansive world of knowledge and critical thinking that the humanities were designed to foster.

Undefining America as a nation of immigrants does not honor our values, it abandons them.

Factors such as screaming advertising and belligerency on-air are absent as polls embrace more liberal news outlets, particularly MSNBC which has been growing steadily, from near invisibility 15 years ago to now having the dominant cable news show in recent testing, “The Rachel Maddow Show.”

Health care giant’s market power drives up your medical costs as executives get richer.