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Kevin P. Reilly: Trump and Harvard draw headlines, but UW is also imperiled by DOGE cuts
We need you to listen to the shifting opinions of the American people, including your Wisconsin constituents, who the AP/NORC poll shows want you to do just that.

Jeremiah Mosteller: We increasingly live in a world of unsolved crime
In Wisconsin and neighboring states, only 16 percent of violent crimes result in arrest.

Kristin Brey: What rigid support for 1849 abortion law says about Wisconsin Republicans
Grassroots Republicans are still embracing rigid views on abortion, despite a barrage of headlines detailing the deaths and suffering of women under similar bans.

Richard Moore: No, the SNAP bill is not nanny
So Make America Healthy Again finally found its way to Madison this month when lawmakers gave a pair of Republican-sponsored bills each a hearing, and while groups such as Wisconsin United for Freedom were ecstatic, and rightly so, some libertarian-ish types were reaching for their Tums.

Christy Schwan & Patty Keuck: Congress puts millions at risk of losing health care access
We must protect Medicaid for the millions who rely on it. Tell Congress not to endanger the health of our country.

John Nichols: GOP reps choose oligarchy over feeding the poor
By moving the United States another step toward the wealth-dominated oligarchy that FDR warned against, Tiffany and his fellow Republicans made American less equal, less free and more vulnerable to “the most ancient of mankind’s enemies.”

James Causey: Trump worries more about South Africa’s nonexistent genocide than real US racism
I have always believed the Trump administration contained a troubling undercurrent of racism. The question is how we confront this injustice moving forward.

Spencer Black: Democracy’s demise is happening bit by bit, in plain sight
Donald Trump and his administration are slowly but inexorably eroding our American democracy in multiple ways. The end result may not be all that different than a military takeover and suspension of constitutional government, but it’s happening incrementally and on many fronts.

Judy Karofsky: The assisted living industry affects us all
Our obligation is to work together to create and advance a care plan that will honor the defenseless and protect our most vulnerable. This is a call for action, a call to the people who have the ability and responsibility to make changes and regulate a critical industry. We want and need safe, affordable housing for our aging friends and family members—and for ourselves.

Sam Berman: We are called the greatest generation for good reason. Here’s why.
It is right and important that we remember and grieve with the families, the mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, who lost loved ones in America’s wars.

Dave Cieslewicz: The future of war
It’s Memorial Day, so let’s do some reflecting on war. Here’s my key reflection: the most dangerous thing we face right now may be the passing of the WW II generation. Here’s why.

Steven Walters: Three political veterans vie to head Wisconsin Democrats
The victor will succeed Ben Wikler.

Joe Handrick: Evers’ current map was no ‘least-change’ effort—it was a partisan play
If Evers were truly adhering to the court’s directive, he would have made the smallest possible changes to balance populations, not orchestrated a wholesale transfer of tens of thousands of voters to reshape electoral outcomes.

Bill Kaplan: GOP-led House passed cruel deceptive cuts
The GOP-led House passage of the misnamed “One Big Beautiful Act” cuts taxes mostly for the wealthy, shreds food aid and health care coverage, and massively increases the national debt.

Gregory Humphrey: Seriously harsh and fiscally unsound House budget bill requires Senate redo
Medicaid cuts are what the Senators will be most attuned to as they now take up the highly flawed and overly mean-spirited House bill.

David Blaska: Worse than Watergate
What did Democrats know and who will be held accountable?

Michelle Bryant: America for sale? Luxury over leadership
Under the Trump administration, a troubling narrative has emerged that America might as well have a metaphorical “For Sale” sign plastered across its forehead—or perhaps, more aptly, Uncle Sam’s.

Dave Zweifel: High-speed future hampered by ignorant politicians
It’s bizarre, but for some reason our politicians view fixing our infrastructure to accommodate faster and more reliable passenger trains as prohibitively expensive, but think nothing of building billion-dollar interchanges and adding a couple of lanes to highway corridors that cost billions more.

Ryan D. Jayne: Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding unaccountable private schools
Despite promises of choice and competition, voucher programs have repeatedly failed to demonstrate academic improvements for students.

Christopher Fons: Cutting the fat at MPS central office?
The jobs being eliminated are already of those working in classrooms.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ preview Trump’s inauguration, Evers’ State of the State address
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, preview President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural address and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ State of the State speech. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership. … Please log

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Feb. 14
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss a new audit of Milwaukee Public Schools, liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz’s refusal to recuse from a case challenging Act 10, next week’s primary election and Gov. Tony Evers’ upcoming budget address.