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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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Portrait of John Nichols

John Nichols: Scott Walker’s attack on Paul Soglin is simply absurd

If voters are supposed to be troubled that Soglin engaged in a diplomatic nicety long ago, won’t they be just as troubled that Walker has appeared on Chinese television sporting the contemporary symbol of a country Human Rights Watch describes as “a one-party authoritarian state that systemically curbs fundamental rights”?

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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.”

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 »
Portrait of John Nichols

John Nichols: Scott Walker’s attack on Paul Soglin is simply absurd

If voters are supposed to be troubled that Soglin engaged in a diplomatic nicety long ago, won’t they be just as troubled that Walker has appeared on Chinese television sporting the contemporary symbol of a country Human Rights Watch describes as “a one-party authoritarian state that systemically curbs fundamental rights”?

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