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Tony Evers: One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make Wisconsin pay more, receive less
Republicans have created a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar hole in our state’s future budgets, on top of the nearly $70 million we’ll have to pay over the next two years.

M.D. Kittle: Evers is going out with a leftist bang
With leftists firmly in control of the state’s court of last resort for the foreseeable future, Evers could go out with a leftist bang. He’s got nothing to lose.

Steven Walters: Restructuring plan for Wisconsin prisons rejected
With Gov. Tony Evers on his way out, the landscape for prison reform in the state has changed.

Daniel Buck & Will Flanders: How conservatives can win over teachers
Separating them from their unions will require smart politics.

Christian Schneider: American universities are schooling China on authoritarian tactics
The attempt to limit speech through peer pressure risks turning campuses into surveillance states.

Bruce Murphy: Vivent Health rakes in donations, pays big salaries
United Way-funded nonprofit pays $8 million over 4 years to top employees.

Gregory Humphrey: Great Wisconsin Quilt Show and Trump’s tariffs
In conversations with vendors from Arizona to Iowa to Virginia, a continuous theme emerged and was expressed by those displaying their goods and promoting their services. Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting their businesses.

Dave Zweifel: In Trump’s America, criminals walk, civil servants get fired
The rioters who ransacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, beat and killed law enforcement officers and stunned the world are free and unpunished. But the Justice Department lawyers and federal investigators who sought to make them pay for their crimes have lost their livelihoods, and several are having to hire lawyers to fight charges themselves.

Neil Kraus: Ever-expanding AI continues to invade higher education
Trump and Big Tech promise “human flourishing” in the UW System.

Tom Still: AI mistrust is natural human reaction, but history suggests that may fade
It’s only human to question the safety and potential economic disruption of inventions that test our ability to absorb the change, but history shows acceptance is widespread once benefits become clear. That may be the case with AI in time.

Judith Davidoff: Journalism in the age of AI
A new UW-Madison lab aims to help newsrooms develop in-house artificial intelligence tools that reflect their own values and needs.

LaKeshia Myers: The invisible made visible: Celebrating Afro-Latino contributions during Hispanic Heritage Month
As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, let us commit to telling complete stories—stories that acknowledge the full breadth of Latino identity, including those who carry African heritage alongside their Latino culture.

Terry Hansen: Ignoring climate change will not make it go away
In order to deal with climate-driven threats, we must first recognize them. Urgently reducing greenhouse gas emissions and funding adaptation should be top priorities for every politician who cares about public health and the future we all share.

Laura Dresser: A year of deep disruption
2025’s economic policy undermines the opportunities and security of Wisconsin’s workers.

John Nichols: Walz speaks for 75 million voters who rejected Trump
Eight months into the Trump-Vance interregnum, Americans are becoming more and more aware of the fact that the Republicans were serious about the crazy concepts they spouted with regard to the economy, and about implementing their authoritarian fever dreams.

Frank Zufall: With each mass shooting, more of us have a stake in sensible gun legislation
The question in my mind is not if the legislation will happen, but how many people will have to die before enough of us, regardless of political affiliation, demand sensible gun legislation.

Richard Moore: DNR audit confirms what we already knew: The DNR diverts, disguises, deceives
The state’s Legislative Audit Bureau released last week its long-awaited audit of the state Department of Natural Resources’s Fish & Wildlife account, and, for those who bothered to read it, it was nothing short of eye-popping.

Mark Lisheron: The hills are alive with the, well, approval of leftist politicians
Republicans insist lakes are not human: ‘We need to be protecting the rights of people, not things’

Michelle Bryant: Florida surgeon general needs a history lesson
From smallpox to polio to COVID-19, vaccination campaigns have averted millions of deaths and spared generations from suffering.

Bruce Thompson: How to radically reduce poverty
New proposal shows how targeted policies could slash poverty in Milwaukee and U.S.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ preview the April 1 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, preview the April 1 election for Wisconsin Supreme Court between Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for March 28
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the surge in early voting ahead of Tuesday’s election, the latest on the state Supreme Court and state schools superintendent races, the voter ID amendment on the ballot and more.