In Wisconsin, agrivoltaics is gaining traction as a solution to balance energy needs with agricultural productivity.

Wisconsin cannot afford a regulatory system that operates on autopilot without meaningful oversight. We must reinforce a system of checks and balances.

This touches all of us. And it won’t go away unless we get to the root of the problem — the unAmerican national security directives, the insane ICE budget, the lack of accountability — what Vice President JD Vance, astoundingly, asserted was “total immunity” for the rogue, masked agents targeting people in a political crackdown that has nothing to do with keeping us safe.

U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, an Illinois Democrat, announced she would file articles of impeachment against the Homeland Security secretary.

Madison politics reporters discuss their perspectives on WORT-FM’s “A Public Affair.”

Wisconsin Republicans want you to believe their policies are the key to solving the very problems those Republican policies created.

Trump’s military actions against Venezuela violated the War Powers Resolution requiring consultation with Congress.

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.

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.

The federal government has formally declared that medically transitioning minors does not meet professionally recognized standards of care for children.

MPS finally steps up remediation

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.

Subsidization of nuclear energy in Wisconsin is about government favoring one industry over another.

More U.S.-built cargo ships would help revitalize the country’s industrial landscape.

A coal terminal in Superior will terminate its operations this year as cargo shippers are moving less tonnage via the Great Lakes.

Raising millions in charitable dollars while executives get rich.

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.

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.

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.