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Dave Zweifel: Big bill only a piece of Trump’s assault on the public
While all the public’s attention has been focused on the congressional machinations over the budget, with a few brief distractions like bunker-buster bombs being dropped on Iran, the administration is busy quietly dismantling programs that had positioned America for the future.

Bruce Murphy: Trouble at Milwaukee Art Museum?
Amid financial problems, staff layoffs, board leadership questioned.

Steven Walters: A tale of two spending plans
Leaders in Madison and Washington diverge on tax policy, Medicaid, partisanship.

Brooke Legler: The real effects of the Wisconsin state budget on children
We are putting in the minimum, and this budget keeps us on the lowest tier as a state for investment in our public schools and our young children compared to other states. Meanwhile, we continue to be among the biggest spenders on our juvenile offenders.

Patrick McIlheran: Plenty of time left for good policy in Wisconsin Legislature
Unfinished business includes ways of blocking corrosive ideas and permitting freedom to flourish.

Mike Hooper: Natural gas plants will deliver reliable energy We Energies customers depend on
We Energies’ new natural gas plants will meet all local, state and federal environmental and health regulations.

LaKeshia Myers: The fierce urgency of now
Why legacy civil rights organizations need you now more than ever.

John Nichols: New Yorkers take to socialism; in Milwaukee it’s old hat
Of Milwaukee’s three Socialist Party mayors, the longest-serving was Dan Hoan. Elected to six terms over 24 years, Hoan was nationally recognized as an exceptional mayor.

Gregory Humphrey: DeForest: Democracy in action
Recall efforts against village board trustee Bill Landgraf gains needed signatures

Alex Saloutos: Madison officials gut voter-approved lakefront protections for $320M project
City officials knew about the referendum requirement “from the beginning” but kept it hidden through 8 years of planning.

Jonathan Tajnai: Neighbors helping neighbors, all year long
In Milwaukee alone, Target has contributed nearly $250,000 in guest-directed giving locally across areas like education, health, civil rights, human services, and youth-programs since 2020.

James Causey: Trump said he didn’t know about Project 2025. Now he’s enacting it.
The similarities between what Project 2025 proposed and what Trump’s second administration has unleashed on Americans is striking, but now is not the time to be complacent and simply hope for change.

Bill Berry: Ag secretary’s idiocy bodes ill for immigrants, agriculture
As federal agents continue their campaign of cruelty and fear, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said automation and “34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program” would fill the farm workforce gaps.

Almanac of American Politics: Excerpts from chapters on Wisconsin and Gov. Tony Evers
For more than five decades, the Almanac of American Politics has set the standard for political reference books. In September, the Almanac will be publishing its 2026 edition, with more than 2,000 pages offering fully updated chapters on all 435 House members and their

Kristen Brey: Our budget was only built to pass – and it did. It still affects you.
In the early hours of July 3, in the shadow of Trump’s ‘beautiful bill,’ Wisconsin passed a budget that exemplifies what compromise looks like.

Richard Moore: Progressive-era bureaucratic power returns to Wisconsin
We all knew this day was coming—the day when the radical Wisconsin Supreme Court would transfer virtually all legislative prerogative to the state’s collectivist bureaucracy.

Gregg Hoffmann: Nuclear developments in Wisconsin
Whether you consider nuclear energy a green energy or not, it is gaining a lot of attention in Wisconsin.

Bill Kaplan: Wisconsin 3rd CD key to Democratic comeback
The 3rd CD race will be the most important 2026 Wisconsin congressional election.

Dave Zweifel: GOP flip-floppers sell out America
No one was more adept at beating his chest about how bad the One Big Beautiful Bill was than our own Ron Johnson.

John Torinus: Wisconsin GOP congressmen: All doves
If any of the seven Wisconsin Republican congressmen try to tell you that they are fiscal conservatives, tell them you no longer buy their story.

‘The Insiders’ review recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decisions
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at several recent opinions issued by the Wisconsin Supreme Court as its 2024-25 session ends. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for July 11
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturning the Legislature’s power to suspend administrative rules, the Wisconsin Elections Commission report on the former Madison clerk’s actions after discovering uncounted absentee ballots, a new lawsuit challenging the state’s congressional lines, the state budget and more.