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Michael Jahr: Much of America figuring out how to build more homes
Wisconsin can follow suit and cut regulations.

Mitchell A. Sobieski: Wisconsin farmers who backed Trump stand to gain welfare-style handouts thanks to his failed tariff war
Donald Trump announced a proposed $12 billion farm aid package on December 8, marketing it as a lifeline for agricultural producers battered by trade disruptions, inflation, and volatile global markets.

Courtney Graves: Understanding Wisconsin’s health care costs
While Wisconsin’s health care costs are not among the worst in the country, our inadequate policy choices are undermining potential for cost relief.

Spencer Black: Trumpflation is hurting Americans
While we’re all paying more because of Trumpflation, Trump is calling concern about affordability a “con job” and a “false narrative.” Guess his billionaire buddies don’t have to worry about the price of a burger.

John Nichols: AGs push back against Trump’s bid to preempt AI regulation
A bipartisan coalition of three dozen state attorneys general has come together to oppose efforts to ban state regulation of artificial intelligence.

Dave Cieslewicz: The elites had this coming
We’re seeing this revolt happening all over the political landscape and all over the developed world. This Humphrey’s case is just another example. On the actual merits of the case, I’ll lament the new power given to the president — especially this president. But on a higher level, the elites had it coming.

Mike McCabe: Curled up in a ball
Watching the decline of civilization in real time produces such overwhelming feelings of helplessness for some that they fear for their mental well-being. They’re curling up in a ball, not because they’re apathetic, because they’re feeling besieged and powerless.

Russ Feingold, Jeff Mandell and Rachel Snyder: SCOTUS could reshape US campaign rules
Wisconsin’s nightmare could become America’s reality: elections for sale to the highest bidder, and citizens’ voices drowned out by billionaires’ checkbooks.

Steven Walters: Four-month redistricting fight looms over Wisconsin’s U.S. House districts
The state Supreme Court has created two panels to review the Republican-drawn maps.

Julian Bradley and Mattias Gugel: The payroll tax you don’t see — and the raise you don’t get
Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance system still taxes paychecks like it’s 1932.

Amy Curtis: Tammy Baldwin’s Obamacare subsidy olive branch backfires on her
When Democrats talk about the need to keep making “health care affordable,” but only offer up more subsidies and government intervention, they’re not serious about lowering costs.

Richard Moore: Evers, DHS launch war on scientific debate
Blue bureaucrats and their political partners aren’t interested in open scientific inquiry; they are interested in protecting those special interests who insist vaccines can’t and don’t play a role in autism.

LaKeshia Myers: Remembering Hydeia Broadbent: A voice that changed the world
As we observe World AIDS Day, we remember a champion who transformed how America understood HIV and AIDS. Hydeia Broadbent, the pioneering activist who passed away in February 2024 at age thirty-nine, spent her entire life fighting stigma and bringing hope to millions affected by the epidemic.

Gregg Hoffmann: Globe is warming quicker than projected
Ever since the Paris Climate Accords in 2015, 1.5 degrees Celsius has been the temperature many scientists talk about as a threshold for global warming. Few thought we had already blown by 1.5, until recently.

Terry Hansen: Denial of Gaza aid is a starvation strategy
This recent blockade is part of a much longer pattern: Israel’s restrictions on the movement of food into Gaza actually date back to 1991, well before Hamas came into power in 2006.

Jessie Rodriguez: Wrongful conviction compensation reform
Wisconsin decided 112 years ago that the state had an obligation to right their wrongs when the justice system fails its citizens. We cannot give back the centuries taken from exonerees, but we can take a step to make things right.

John Nichols: Unlike Tiffany, Barnes respects Wisconsin
Mandela Barnes carries forward the legacy of the modern Democratic Party of Nelson, Phillips and so many other progressive champions of economic, social and racial justice — a fact that Tiffany would do well to recognize, and respect.

Mark Lisheron: Majority of Wisconsin kids fall short in math as legislators consider fix
As math proficiency continues to decline in Wisconsin schools, the Legislature is considering a plan to improve numeracy, or the ability to work with numbers in daily life.

Paul Fanlund: MAGA is vulnerable in 2026, but Dems could screw it up
My focus is on a hope that Democrats will offer candidates who can win in places Democrats hardly ever do. To me, that gives the country the best chance of reversing damage Trump has done.

Bill Kaplan: Who’s to blame if ACA tax credits aren’t extended?
It’s long past time for Trump and congressional Republicans to extend the ACA tax credits.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ consider top issues before the Wisconsin Supreme Court
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider cases on the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s docket and other issues it may take up. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Nov. 22 – Dec. 5
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss the latest in the SNAP benefits debate, a redistricting panel being appointed, the Supreme Court accepting a case from an immigrants rights group challenging ICE detainers in five Wisconsin counties, and more.