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Bill Kaplan: Venezuela, Trump’s hubris
Trump’s military actions against Venezuela violated the War Powers Resolution requiring consultation with Congress.

Mike DuPre’: All those warnings about dictatorship? Yeah, we’re there
The current president’s regime is so full of lies, violence, corruption, cruelty and incompetence that a spreadsheet is needed to catalog the damage done to the United States and the world.

Dave Cieslewicz: Don’t trust the FBI
I’m one of about three Americans who hasn’t rushed to judgement on the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. What I have are a lot of questions and zero faith that this Justice Department and this FBI will provide impartial answers.

Richard Moore: The federal government finally says no
The federal government has formally declared that medically transitioning minors does not meet professionally recognized standards of care for children.

Mark Lisheron: Lead paint: The 50-year saga continues
MPS finally steps up remediation

Paul Soglin: In today’s Madison, voices of reason are not tolerated
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and her allies on the City Council are running the city off a fiscal cliff while shouting down voices of reason.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ debate what’s behind Wisconsin’s rising property tax bills
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss property tax increases facing property owners and how Wisconsin legislators could address the issue. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Katie Nekola: Nuclear power isn’t an option for Wisconsin data centers
Subsidization of nuclear energy in Wisconsin is about government favoring one industry over another.

Thomas Nelson and Jerald Podair: 50 years after the Edmund Fitzgerald, it’s time to fix American shipbuilding
More U.S.-built cargo ships would help revitalize the country’s industrial landscape.

Jackson Walker & Mike Nichols: Superior coal terminal is latest victim of declining Great Lakes shipments
A coal terminal in Superior will terminate its operations this year as cargo shippers are moving less tonnage via the Great Lakes.

Bruce Murphy: The growing wealth of Children’s Wisconsin
Raising millions in charitable dollars while executives get rich.

Dave Zweifel: On the 5th anniversary of Jan. 6, the lies keep coming
The fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol this week offered yet another example — as if we needed more — of the continued attacks on American democracy, on the truth, on common decency, embodied by one of the most despicable men to ever hold power in America.

Jamie Stiehm: The dark day democracy almost died
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, was a solemn anniversary for Congress, five years to the day since a mob of President Donald Trump’s followers broke into the Capitol and savagely battled the police officers defending us, those trapped inside.

Gregory Humphrey: Democrats don’t need new message for 2026 — use one already screaming at us
The threat to American democracy should be more than enough to mobilize every Democratic voter in the country. Every independent voter. Every Republican voter who grasps the necessity and urgency of our time.

Scott Walker: Michael Reagan was more than the Gipper’s son
A leader and an inspiration to the next generation

Josh Schoemann: Let’s move state agencies out of Madison
My plan targets the outdated assumption that all of state government must be physically concentrated in one of the most expensive regions in the Midwest.

Dan Shafer: Elections in 2026 offer a generational opportunity for Wisconsin Democrats
Sorting through the big picture of the year ahead, and analyzing why 2026 could be the year where Democrats win a trifecta for the first time in a long time.

Jeffrey Mandell: Wisconsin could be democracy’s best hope
Five years after Jan. 6 insurrection, the nation continues sliding into autocracy, while Wisconsin moves forward.

Rebecca Haefner: Data centers: Why Wisconsin needs guardrails now
The tech boom doesn’t have to come at the expense of our environment, our electrical grid, or our pocketbooks — but only if we establish smart policies now.

Christina Lieffring: Could an exhibition like “Guiding Ethos” find a home in Madison?
A group show at Appleton’s Trout Museum stands up for “political” art in an era of cowardice and compliance.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss legislation to allow early processing of absentee ballots
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss legislation to allow clerks to process absentee ballots the day before election day. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Aug. 22
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss the Evers administration’s efforts to bypass the GOP-controlled administrative rules committee, a Dem bill to revive a back-to-school sales tax holiday, President Trump’s push to end mail-in voting and more.