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WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ preview the 2026 WisGOP state convention
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, preview the Republican Party of Wisconsin’s upcoming state convention and discuss challenges facing the party going into the midterms. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Patrick McIlheran: Wisconsin socialists’ dreams outstrip Sweden in price
The Legislature’s “Socialist Caucus” drafted a bill in March that would raise Wisconsin’s existing top income tax rate by one-sixth and add a new top bracket for households earning $1 million. The new top rate: 17.7 percent.

Jamie Stiehm: A cruel joke for our 250th birthday
In the nation’s 250th year, we have a lot of pieces to pick up and glue back together. Celebrations should not hide the constitutional crisis and dismiss the sharp divide we’re in right now.

Gregory Humphrey: Nation knows the sitting president is incompetent
According to a new Washington Post–ABC News–Ipsos poll, fifty-nine percent of Americans believe Donald Trump does not have the mental sharpness necessary to lead the country.

Mike McCabe: Mum’s the word
We’ve got unaddressed national emergencies coming out of our ears and we’re not meaningfully discussing them, much less taking corrective action.

Scott Walker: ‘God Bless America’ remains more than patriotic song for many Americans
National Day of Prayer offers reminder that freedom requires gratitude, faith, and vigilance

Debby Jackson: Wisconsin’s hidden bridge crisis: Bringing small local structures out of the shadows
More than 1,600 of small bridges and culverts are in poor or severe condition. After years of work, a new platform, FixWIBridges.com, offers a transparent, user-friendly view of the problem.

Ruben Anthony: Supreme Court ruling guts Voting Rights Act
This is not a moment for despair or division. It is a moment for resolve. We are in a democratic state of emergency, and the response must be peaceful, informed and proactive.

Henry Olsen: Supreme Court’s Callais redistricting ruling could backfire on GOP
America faces a choice: Either it can have unrestrained partisan gerrymandering, or it can have a democratic republic. It can’t have both.

Michael Lucas: Tax breaks aren’t subsidies
Both the left and the right have been lamenting the fact that Big Business has been granted a number of “subsidies” in the form of tax exemptions and tax credits. But are they really subsidies?

Gregg Hoffmann: Sustainable Ag research shows results
Findings from the first phase of the Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration project highlighted the direct benefits of sustainable land management on commercial dairy forage fields, according to a Mid-West Farm Report story.

Elaine Griffin: ‘Digital Delusion’ destroys myths about AI learning
A back-to-basics approach to learning: ‘The Digital Delusion’ reveals how students learn best, and it’s not through high-tech AI in classrooms.

Noria Doyle: Expat vs. Immigrant: The racial sorting and stigma hidden inside everyday migration vocabulary
The words we use to describe people who cross borders are not neutral. In Milwaukee, where immigrant labor constructed the breweries, tanneries, and foundries that built the city, the vocabulary of migration still sorts people by race and origin long after they arrive.

Dan Knodl: Shifting blame won’t lower energy bills
If we are serious about affordability, we must take a more balanced approach, one that prioritizes reliability, phases in new technologies responsibly, and stops forcing families to pay twice for the same electricity system.

Tom Kamenick: Your Right to Know: How to solve high record costs and long delays
Change the law so that custodians can charge location costs only if the records are produced within a strict deadline — perhaps 10 business days.

Mark Belling: The opposite of cutting-edge innovation
The slow-moving, inconvenient, expensive Madison-to-Milwaukee train idea is back.

John Nichols: Hong sides with Wisconsin workers over AI robber barons
Like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and California U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna at the federal level, she’s taking the AI debate seriously.

Dave Cieslewicz: Voting rights ruling could help Dems
The bottom line is that it’s way too early to declare this a big victory for Republicans or even to claim with much confidence that it will reduce the number of Black representatives. And, if it makes us consider voters as individuals with a simple right to vote, rather than as faceless members of a bloc that votes all the same, so much the better. Now, that would be true progress.

Paul Van Auken, et al: If we want peace in the US, we should learn from Ireland
People can find points of connection in the stories of others, even if they’re of a different political party, race, religion, or sexual orientation. Listening is the key to building relationships.

Dave Zweifel: RFK Jr. ushers in age of contagion
A doctor friend of mine predicted this would happen 10 years ago: Measles is back.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ preview the 2026 WisGOP state convention
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, preview the Republican Party of Wisconsin’s upcoming state convention and discuss challenges facing the party going into the midterms. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for May 8
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss a lawsuit challenging an order to toss 23 Madison absentee ballots due to a clerk error, Gov. Tony Evers rejecting a call to end Wisconsin’s ban on conversion therapy, the race for governor and more.