The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are expanding their footprint, both here in Wisconsin and across the nation. What started as a small, quiet fringe movement has ballooned into a powerful force within the Democratic Party.

Over the weekend, seven young people in Milwaukee were connected to firearms incidents. That number is not just a statistic, it’s a warning.

The abuses of Donald Trump’s second term inspired the rise of the No Kings movement, which this Saturday will fill the streets of Madison, Milwaukee, Medford, Monroe, Manitowoc, Marinette, Marshfield, Minocqua and as many as 3,000 other communities around Wisconsin and across the nation.

The proliferation of women in business, government and other sectors of society has been a driver of as well as reflection of extraordinary human advancement

This is not a legally meritorious challenge. Birthright citizenship has been constitutionally grounded for more than 150 years. It is not a serious policy debate. Rather, it is a symptom of how far the country has drifted from basic principles of equality and belonging.

Over 40% of first-year students already start as sophomores at UW-Madison.

This law will not affect whether more or fewer Wisconsinites espouse antisemitic views or boldly oppose this prejudice.

In a move that should alarm every Wisconsin resident who values free speech, academic freedom, and equal protection under the law, the Wisconsin legislature recently passed a bill that would enshrine the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism into law.

Trump and congressional Republicans said there was no money for the expired Affordable Care Act tax credits. But the money spent and requested for the costly and senseless Iran War would do so, guns vs. butter.

County supervisors are clueless that they are being used as patsies in a coordinated scheme by a taxpayer-funded lobbying machine, one that exists not to represent the public, but to represent government itself.

As soon as the Trump entourage took over, the first target was the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency created by the Dodd-Frank legislation to protect consumers from usurious interest rates, unconscionable checking account and overdraft fees, and give the government the ability to investigate corporate wrongdoing.

As the volume of records requests has swelled, so has the portion of those requests that are rejected or otherwise incomplete.

I’ll admit that the 60-vote cloture threshold has prevented many bad bills from becoming law, and that without it bad bills would become law more easily. But it also prevents good bills from getting passed.

The largest group of elected officials in the United States is not in Congress or the state capitol. They are school board members. They make decisions that shape the future of millions of children.

Here at the Examiner we are proud to stand with other Wisconsin journalists and nonprofits fighting for open records and public access to government.

Raising taxes just passes the buck to cash-strapped families who can’t afford it; real reform starts with curbing costs, and transparency is a necessary first step.

Minnesota and Wisconsin may be neighbors, but they are miles apart on welfare abuse and reform.

Our present tax policies written by Congress benefit wealthy elites and powerful corporations instead of the people who actually do the work to make our nation great.

Exact Sciences was a failing public company when Kevin Conroy and Maneesh Arora moved it from Massachusetts to Madison. The payoff has not only been huge for Dane County, but for the rest of Wisconsin, as well.