While most Americans were focused on ending the longest government shutdown in our nation’s history, Congress slipped a provision into the funding bill that could devastate Wisconsin’s burgeoning hemp industry.

Protecting farmworker health through climate-responsive labor standards is not only a moral imperative, it’s essential for the resilience of Wisconsin’s agricultural future.

Zohran Mamdani was just elected in one of the few places in the country that still allows a once-common practice called fusion voting, a practice that made Abraham Lincoln’s presidency possible.

That orange glow you see on the horizon may be Donald Trump setting in the west.

Imagine a string of pocket districts along the lake and river: each with its own identity, but connected by transit, trails, and curated experiences.

Water guzzling, jobs costing, high tech monsters or the future of communications and business. Those extremes can all be found in news coverage and discussions of data centers.

We can support decent conditions in our prisons and still remember who the justice system was built to protect.

What began as an exchange between individual researchers has become a partnership that reflects how science can advance discovery, education and innovation on a global scale.

Dramatically fewer University of Wisconsin System students are pursuing degrees in the humanities — including English, history and the arts — than a decade ago.

Although the new cut scores get the blame for inflating school and district performance, the real culprit is the practice of category weighting.

Our little neighborhood bar, the Harmony Bar & Grill, attempted to work with the state’s energy efficiency program, Focus on Energy, as we upgraded refrigeration, HVAC, insulation and advanced energy controls to maximal EnergyStar standards. At every turn, Focus blocked these Inflation Reduction Act-eligible energy efficiency investments.

Expressing frustration or disappointment is natural, but we must avoid rhetoric that inadvertently undermines our own causes, provides ammunition for those who would use our words against us, and could lead to our own peril.

On Election Day, voters took a big step toward a Democratic wave in 2026. Democratic unity is essential to winning a Democratic-led Congress.

It appears many Democrats never heard the adage, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

Some limited wins are still a long way from decisive victory in next year’s midterm Congressional elections, when the voters will choose the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the members of the Senate.

For Johnson to now have the ability for financial compensation from the very government whose democratic processes he sought to disrupt is completely offensive to the principles of public service.

Over the course of our 100 years, through patenting, licensing and investing, WARF has provided more than $4.5 billion in support to the university. That funding has advanced scientific research in every field you can imagine—from life-saving medical treatments to groundbreaking work in energy, engineering, and beyond.

While undergraduate enrollment in most University of Wisconsin System schools trends downward, there has been a dramatic increase in students choosing the state’s technical colleges since the pandemic.