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Losing your health coverage should not trigger the equivalent of a shrug emoji from someone elected to serve the public good.
Trump has gotten cruder along the way, if that’s possible, but he’s hardly alone.
Both Mao and Trump achieved something few modern leaders have, a personality cult so complete it displaced ideology itself.
If Milwaukeeans want to avoid displacement and skyrocketing rents, they must demand their council members support the mayoral mandate they voted for.
44 of 132 legislators are now women.
If the One Big Beautiful Bill Act reaches President Trump’s desk, Congress must reject anything short of a complete elimination of Inflation Reduction Act green energy subsidies.
Right now, they face legacy-defining decisions—chief among them, whether to approve two new methane gas plants proposed by We Energies in Oak Creek and Paris.
Energy use is growing and a blend of generation strategies will likely be needed to meet demand, with or without a fleet of data centers.
Court of Appeals rules that public bodies must explain why they are going into closed session.
Maryland Governor Moore’s reparations veto shows politics over progress.
Trump’s economic policy is driving costs and unemployment up.
How AI’s ability to lie at scale mirrors the idiocy of a movement that broke politics.
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst’s “we are all going to die” gaffe about Medicaid cuts at a recent town hall meeting in Iowa is now Exhibit A of Republican electoral vulnerability.
One of the most concerning provisions in the budget reconciliation bill would shift a large portion of the cost of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from the federal government to the states.
Some unkind souls have likened Tony Evers’s gubernatorial years to a zombie apocalypse, but I’m here to sort of defend the poor governor, especially about the apocalypse part.
Wisconsin’s Dem chairman ran interference for old Joe.
Congressional Republicans have lost their backbone and common decency. Their America is not for most of us. Beyond shame.
A country led by an authoritarian leader who thumbs his nose at the rule of law is not the America I know. And it certainly isn’t great.
Mr. President, unclench your fist and open your arms to those already here who deserve the privilege to remain.
The strange attacks on education aren’t confined to Trump’s tantrums over higher education. It is just as real to a different degree for public education here at home.
Losing your health coverage should not trigger the equivalent of a shrug emoji from someone elected to serve the public good.
Trump has gotten cruder along the way, if that’s possible, but he’s hardly alone.
Both Mao and Trump achieved something few modern leaders have, a personality cult so complete it displaced ideology itself.
If Milwaukeeans want to avoid displacement and skyrocketing rents, they must demand their council members support the mayoral mandate they voted for.
44 of 132 legislators are now women.
If the One Big Beautiful Bill Act reaches President Trump’s desk, Congress must reject anything short of a complete elimination of Inflation Reduction Act green energy subsidies.
Right now, they face legacy-defining decisions—chief among them, whether to approve two new methane gas plants proposed by We Energies in Oak Creek and Paris.
Energy use is growing and a blend of generation strategies will likely be needed to meet demand, with or without a fleet of data centers.
Court of Appeals rules that public bodies must explain why they are going into closed session.
Maryland Governor Moore’s reparations veto shows politics over progress.
Trump’s economic policy is driving costs and unemployment up.
How AI’s ability to lie at scale mirrors the idiocy of a movement that broke politics.
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst’s “we are all going to die” gaffe about Medicaid cuts at a recent town hall meeting in Iowa is now Exhibit A of Republican electoral vulnerability.
One of the most concerning provisions in the budget reconciliation bill would shift a large portion of the cost of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from the federal government to the states.
Some unkind souls have likened Tony Evers’s gubernatorial years to a zombie apocalypse, but I’m here to sort of defend the poor governor, especially about the apocalypse part.
Wisconsin’s Dem chairman ran interference for old Joe.
Congressional Republicans have lost their backbone and common decency. Their America is not for most of us. Beyond shame.
A country led by an authoritarian leader who thumbs his nose at the rule of law is not the America I know. And it certainly isn’t great.
Mr. President, unclench your fist and open your arms to those already here who deserve the privilege to remain.
The strange attacks on education aren’t confined to Trump’s tantrums over higher education. It is just as real to a different degree for public education here at home.
