So much for the party of ‘affordability’

olice records from the encampment crackdown in May 2024 show enforcement inconsistency and the “obstructing or resisting” trap.

Instead of a long line of professional politicians in the governor’s mansion on Lake Mendota, how about an outstanding entrepreneur who has created thousands of new jobs and a bundle of wealth for venture investors?

Wisconsin can follow suit and cut regulations.

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.

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

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.

A bipartisan coalition of three dozen state attorneys general has come together to oppose efforts to ban state regulation of artificial intelligence.

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.

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.

Wisconsin’s nightmare could become America’s reality: elections for sale to the highest bidder, and citizens’ voices drowned out by billionaires’ checkbooks.

The state Supreme Court has created two panels to review the Republican-drawn maps.

Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance system still taxes paychecks like it’s 1932.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.