My fellow Republicans lose the argument when they call our political adversaries schoolyard names like “Demon-rats.” Progressives might be more credible if they would dial back the hyperbole.

A murder that brings out our best … and our absolute worst.

Trump not only failed to end the Russia-Ukraine war, he has made things much worse with his soft, equivocal stance. He spouts off but shows little backbone.

The GOP-led congressional passage of the Big Beautiful Act is already an unpopular fiasco. The bill is polling badly because most Americans, including Wisconsinites, know it’s bad for them.

As someone who walks into families’ homes every week, I can tell you: The need is great, and the stakes are high. Our children deserve more than political uncertainty. They deserve a Head Start.

Mr. Kirk’s virtue laid in his willingness to pursue honest, peaceful, open debate with people of all sorts. He embodied one of the most crucial aspects of real Liberalism; an aspect which has allowed Western civilization to flourish. But with his death, now his admirers, and especially his opponents, are all the worse for having to live without him.

It’s possible to be repulsed by an act without canonizing its victim.

The evolving threat to American security

I was in Chicago last week while Donald Trump was making noises about sending federal troops to “declare war” on the nation’s third largest city — apparently his idea of how to tackle crime.

Nine months into a second Trump term that seems grimmer than most of us anticipated, Idea Fest presented some of the nation’s best minds exploring aspects of the national crisis.

The notion that AI technology could be programmed — for reasons of profiteering or politics — to deny or delay care for Medicare and Medicaid recipients has U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan concerned.

Charlie Kirk was a great American. He was passionate about his faith, family and freedom. Although his death is tragic, his legacy will live on; it must live on.

Less than 48 hours in, while we have seen examples of condolences or grief, too much of the discourse following Mr. Kirk’s death has amounted to points scored in an endless online game.

As soon as the news broke that Kirk was shot while on stage at Utah Valley University, Van Orden began a stream of increasingly unhinged social media posts blaming Democrats and the media for the murder and declaring “the gloves are off.”

Could governor soften his view of new federal channel for donors’ generosity?

The Supreme Court insists the Constitution is colorblind. But its ruling in a case about ICE roundups proves the opposite: it sees color very clearly.

Spirited policy debates should end with handshakes, not hatred.