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Bruce Thompson: Why are so many Republican legislators quitting?
The data suggests many still have safe seats. Unless there’s a Democratic blowout.

Will Flanders and Cory Brewer: DPI’s ‘Portrait of a Graduate’ paints a blurred picture
Students cannot communicate effectively if they struggle to read, and they cannot solve problems or think critically without mathematical proficiency and a strong foundation of knowledge.

Brian Fraley: Portrait of deceit: Public records prove DPI misled Wisconsinites about “Portrait of a Graduate” steering committee
The gap between what the Department of Public Instruction and Superintendent Jill Underly told the public and what their own records prove is substantial.

Steve Rankin: Resisting the Group Health coup
We tried democratizing GHC, the board plotted against us

Ruth Conniff: Tammy Baldwin isn’t buying Trump’s Iran deal — neither should we
The provisional agreement to end the war that has cost $30 billion and 13 U.S. lives appears to more or less restore the status quo before the war started.

Bill Berry: Environmental gains have been quashed by Trump
As the current federal administration dismantles environmental gains over the past 50-plus years, it’s almost like history is speeding in reverse, wildly out of control.

Paul Smith: New move to rescind Roadless Rule reflects poorly on Republican party
In 2025, after the Trump administration announced a separate initiative to repeal the Roadless Rule, a public comment period delivered 99% opposition to the proposal

Mike McCabe: No sense bucking natural forces
The Reflecting Pool on the National Mall is a case in point.

Dylan Wilder: The Zohran Mamdani experiment: Why NYC’s government-run grocery stores will fail
City-owned grocery stores in New York—backed by tens of millions in taxpayer dollars per location—threaten private businesses and repeat proven policy failures.

Dan Knodl: States should not be sidelined on artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence may be new technology, but the importance of local representation, accountable government, and state authority remains as important as ever.

Barbara Lawton: Kelda Roys is the only candidate who can beat Tom Tiffany
Kelda Roys is the progressive, competent and proven candidate for governor who will win in November.

William G. Andrekopoulos: Healthcare cost are putting an extreme pressure on school districts’ finances.
Until the legislature addresses the healthcare monopolies devouring local school district budgets, any future financial compromise on school aid is an illusion. Without real medical cost control, our school districts will remain underfunded, our children will continue to pay the price, and hospitals and insurance companies will continue to increase profits.

Gabriel Velez and Larry Zhiming Xu: Students live in world of tech. Phone ban won’t change that
Starting July 1, Wisconsin will require schools to keep cellphones out of classrooms. A study of Florida’s ban found test scores rose significantly. But those gains are inside, not outside, school.

Brian Fraley: Wisconsin in America’s 250: Nicolet, the fur trade, and the Jesuit footprint
Understanding this history explains many things about our state: how many places got their names, the significance rivers have always had here, and why Wisconsin was and remains one of America’s most Catholic states.

Melissa Agard: Democracy is a verb: Honoring America at 250
America’s strength has always been our ability to govern ourselves, with disagreements and debate, but always as one nation. That idea was extraordinary 250 years ago and remains one of the most powerful and enduring ideas the world has ever known.

Natalie Eilbert: In maladies we trust
The fringe anti-vax movement has grown with the same scope and severity of a once-eliminated infectious disease, all the way to the CDC — the very agency that, for decades, has campaigned on vaccine trust and efficacious interventions.

Bill Barth: Centralized control is not the US way
U.S. Postal Service is proposing a rule that essentially pledges not to deliver mail-in election ballots unless states knuckle under and hand over personal voter data to the federal government. What could go wrong?

Steven Walters: The elevator speech for Democratic guv candidates
Boiling down their pitch to voters, why do they deserve your vote?

John Nichols: Cooke’s smart choice to skip the Democratic Convention
While hanging out in hospitality suites at a party convention is fun for political junkies and consequential for statewide candidates who need to connect with activists from Wisconsin’s 72 counties, traveling to a convention takes time away from the campaign trail.

David Blaska: Democrats sort through their seven dwarfs
Political junkies are trying to extract meaning from the results of the WisPolitics straw poll taken this past weekend.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ preview the 2026 WisDems state convention
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, preview the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s state convention two months before the primary election. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership. Follow WisPolitics-State Affairs coverage of

Rewind: Your Week in Review for June 12
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel State Politics Reporter Jessie Opoien discuss candidates who made the midterm ballot and key matchups, the latest developments in notable legal battles, and online gaming compacts. The program also features an interview with Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Devin Remiker to preview this weekend’s state party convention.