On the third Monday in January, communities across the nation celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with a day of events, church services, and community breakfasts. Yet Dr. King would not have envisioned the day as just one of reflection but also a call for action, driven by a commitment to justice.

As we find ourselves in the midst of another turbulent era in American history, it is impossible to ignore the unsettling echoes of our past.

Since he’s been in office, Trump has repeatedly shown his disdain for people of color. If you are shocked or outraged, you haven’t been paying attention. He’s been saying things like this forever.

Seventeen House Republicans finally joined all House Democrats in voting to extend the expired ACA tax credits.

Some arguments against early voting

Do we really want extreme partisanship creeping into our municipal and county governments in Wisconsin? If we allow such partisanship to dominate local government, local democracy and the quality of life in our communities will suffer.

Republican campaign seems deliberately quiet. So why elevate abortion issue?

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.

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.

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.

Trump ran for president repeatedly vowing to deport people who entered the United States illegally.

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?

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.

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.

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.

The conservative icon visited Madison on multiple occasions and the movement he built can still be seen on campus.

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.

Both for Wisconsin and U.S., the data looks much different than he claims.

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.