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Bill Kaplan: No deal, Putin-Trump Ukraine summit
Ukrainians die as Russia’s murderous aggression continues. Putin and Trump got a photo op. The summit concluded with no deal, and brief, vacuous statements by Putin and Trump.

David Blaska: Trump crime-shames Democrat mayors
Sometimes, enough is enough!

Paul Fanlund: Punishing the Washington Post and New York Times is dumb
By abandoning the Post or the Times, or even the Wall Street Journal, with its strong news reporting, you hurt skilled professional reporters who spend their days ferreting out facts on which the nighttime spin merchants rely.

Michelle Bryant: Race and class: No breaks, no vacations
Trump’s actions are not just political; they are a social and psychological assault that reverberates in Black communities of every class.

William Holahan: The cost of attacking higher education
A timely lesson from Covid’s Operation Warp Speed.

Mike McCabe: Rising above
We live in a dishonest age, and all the lying is giving fiction a bad name.

Scott Walker: How Republicans can win the midterms
President Trump recently completed the most successful first six months of any term in history.

Scott Niederjohn & Mark Schug: Economics: The Rodney Dangerfield of modern politics
These days, economics is the Rodney Dangerfield of public policy: It gets no respect. In both Washington and Madison, basic economic principles are routinely ignored, as if policymakers believe they can repeal the laws of supply and demand with campaign slogans.

Gregory Humphrey: Didion Milling in Cambria must be held accountable
The company has disregarded the government’s safety demands and upgrades after five people were killed and 14 were injured in a 2017 horrific corn plant explosion.

Dave Zweifel: WILL thinks ordinances protecting birds are for the birds
One of the most absurd cases that WILL championed was aimed at the city of Madison for its attempts to save our migrating birds.

Jasmyne Jade Hill: Milwaukee’s urban farming: How a Rust Belt city cultivated a grassroots idea into a national model
Milwaukee’s reputation as a manufacturing powerhouse once defined its economic and cultural identity. But as industry collapsed and neighborhoods suffered decades of disinvestment, residents began turning to the land in vacant lots, schoolyards, and rooftops as a means of survival and resistance.

Thomas G. Boyce: As your kids head back to school, it’s important as ever to check their vaccines
During my 30 years of practicing medicine, I have cared for unvaccinated children who died from vaccine-preventable diseases like bacterial meningitis, whooping cough, and influenza.

Geraldine Byrne Nason: Milwaukee’s Irish Fest is one of largest celebrations of our culture in world
The imprint of Irish culture on American life has been immense. Today, over 30 million Americans identify as Irish, over half a million of whom live in Wisconsin.

Scott Gordon: The outsides of other people’s homes
Complaints about ugly new housing abound in Madison, but they aren’t getting us anywhere.

Kate Felton: Medicaid and SNAP helped my family
Derrick Van Orden’s vote to cut these programs will be harmful.

George Mitchell: The Wisconsin school choice advantage
Underly and other choice opponents are on the wrong side of public opinion.

Bill Barth: Divided governing stymies partisans
Voters would do well to continue divided government to temper the worst impulses of both parties.

Mark Lisheron: Port Washington data center on track to by far be state’s largest electricity user
Five projects in works in Wisconsin, driving demand for power

Kevin Gundlach: GHC attacking workers’ rights in Wisconsin and nationally
The essence of GHC’s attack on its workers is its opposition to letting workers decide for themselves who their union will represent.

David McGrath: Trump is implementing an American apartheid
While judges and the courts can slow the process, it’s up to American voters in the 2026 mid-term election to halt Trump’s war on people of color.

‘The Insiders’ review recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decisions
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at several recent opinions issued by the Wisconsin Supreme Court as its 2024-25 session ends. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Aug. 8
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss lobbying the Capitol, a new Supreme Court justice, the Texas Dem lawmaker protest echoing Act 10, a ‘setback’ in modernizing the state’s unemployment system and more.