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WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Wisconsin Republican’s election-year legislative agenda
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled Legislature’s possible agenda for the 2026 election year. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Bruce Murphy: A stealth campaign for Supreme Court?
Republican campaign seems deliberately quiet. So why elevate abortion issue?

Ingrid Andersson: Life goes on
Thirteen states and nine European countries have legalized medically assisted death for people with terminal illness. Wisconsin isn’t one of them. This is in spite of repeated efforts by families and legislators here to pass a compassionate right-to-die act.

Dave Cieslewicz: Trump’s thugocracy
What’s going on in Minneapolis right now — and less dramatically across the rest of the country — is the very face of the Trump Administration.

Scott Walker: Minnesota ICE shooting fallout distracts from left’s massive fraud scandal
It seems the chaos in Minnesota is as much about drawing attention away from corruption scandals as it is about opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Mark Belling: The crazed ICE opponents can’t accept democracy
Trump ran for president repeatedly vowing to deport people who entered the United States illegally.

Michael Lucas: An independent FED? DOJ subpoenas Powell
Since its inception, the FED has managed to cause 14 recessions, 6 financial crises, and bail-out the owners of the FED at Americans’ expense. So will the Trump DOJ’s probe bear fruit that makes this “independent” institution more accountable to the public? Or just more partisan?

Jean Kiernan Detjen: Wisconsin schools score high – but are they preparing citizens?
Wisconsin schools are earning high marks – but deep cuts to arts, languages, and civic learning raise questions about whether students are prepared for a complex, rapidly changing world.

James E. Causey: Nothing has changed since Martin Luther King’s dream speech
Unless reparations are addressed to tackle current inequities and gaps, I fear we will still be using spaces bearing King’s name to sing “We Shall Overcome” 50, 60, or 75 years from now.

Gregory Humphrey: Gender-affirming care for minors gutted by Trump administration, cruelty on steroids takes its place
What should strike us like a thunderbolt is that Children’s Wisconsin and UW Health, two of the state’s most respected health systems, did not halt gender-affirming medical care for minors based on medical decisions. Rather, the decisions were forced on them for political purposes.

Leah Irvin: The legacy of William F. Buckley Jr. at UW-Madison
The conservative icon visited Madison on multiple occasions and the movement he built can still be seen on campus.

Gregg Hoffmann: Can Trump legally withdraw from climate pact?
The Trump Administration recently announced it was withdrawing the U.S. from the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Convention, the agreement underpinning the international effort to slow the climate crisis.

Bruce Thompson: How has Trump done on the economy?
Both for Wisconsin and U.S., the data looks much different than he claims.

Zoe Roberts: Americans must unite around shared values
Team politics, the way we are practicing them in the United States, have become about vengeance, cruelty and control. They should be about the kind of country we want to live in, about how our laws are enforced, and about how our judicial system exercises its power.

Arthur I. Cyr: War Powers Resolution makes a comeback
Bipartisan congressional pressures may eventually limit President Donald Trump’s overseas adventures, though he vows otherwise.

Tom Still: Looking for affordable place to live? Data suggests it’s the Midwest
A recent news story in the Wall Street Journal built on some Fox Valley examples to make a point many Badger state residents already know: Compared to many places, Wisconsin is an affordable place to live with jobs that can pay enough to enhance its livability.

Bruce Murphy: Packers TV broadcasts at issue in governor’s race
Barnes blasts broadcast blackout in much of state and Tiffany’s stand.

Richard Moore: The administrative state and the age of authoritarianism
Preface to Richard Moore’s new book, “The Rise of Bureaucratic Bossism.”

David Blaska: Be like Bill Buckley
Engage your adversaries with verve and class.

Gregory Humphrey: Senate Republicans did what is right: Nation needs more Congressional stewardship
The almost shocking news about GOP Senators taking a stand for the independence of the Federal Reserve and its chair underscores how meek and mild they have acted in relation to Trump on a bevy of critical issues.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Wisconsin Republican’s election-year legislative agenda
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled Legislature’s possible agenda for the 2026 election year. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Dec. 12
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss Gov. Tony Evers’ actions on a series of bills, new teaching requirements for Universities of Wisconsin faculty, the race for governor, timelines in cases challenging Wisconsin’s congressional district lines and more.