Cuts to Medicaid means denying millions of Americans access to desperately-needed supports and the right to live with dignity.

President Trump’s administration revoked the legal status of Christians who face death if forced to return to Taliban-led Afghanistan.

Trump is establishing an authoritarian regime with blinding speed, and riding it out until the midterms so his power can be checked is the worst of all possible options.

After two and a half months of chaos stemming from everything from tariffs to threats to civil liberties to the destruction of Medicaid, there is nothing subtle about the overwhelming rejection of the man and his policies.

America is facing a constitutional crisis not just because the president is defying the courts. We are facing a constitutional crisis because Americans don’t know the Constitution.

Judge Dugan and Gov. Evers demand due process and are vilified for this.

We must remain on high alert to prevent further slide into authoritarianism.

When it comes to arresting a judge and threatening a prison sentence for ensuring due process is carried out in a courthouse, well, that is a step that no American can allow Trump to ignore.

With universal school choice, there would be government schools, parochial schools, special needs schools, secular schools, neighborhood-founded and run schools, but all those who participate in the universal choice program would be public schools.

All state medical associations, including the Wisconsin Medical Society, urged Congress not to support the $880 billion in Medicaid cuts in the GOP-passed (preliminary) budget reconciliation bill.

Ben Wikler’s recent announcement that he’s stepping down as Wisconsin’s Democratic leader generated a volume of national coverage I’ve never seen for the head of a state party.

For 40% of America’s retirees, the payments they receive from Social Security makes up half or more of their total monthly income.

The governor has now visited five European countries in less than two years’ time, and if past performance is any indication of what’s to come, the ‘Evers Effect’ is likely to reduce, not increase, Wisconsin trade.

The order, which effectively dismantles Title VI protections established during the Obama and Biden administrations, has raised alarms about potential increases in suspensions, expulsions, and arrests that disproportionately impact Black and Brown students, and students with disabilities.

Debt reduction is a pressing need, but current remedies will likely hurt three of Wisconsin’s key industries – manufacturing, agriculture and science-based research. In the long run, it will be economic growth from those kinds of industries nationwide that reduces the national debt. Let’s keep that economic principle in mind.

Terms likes stagflation and the Misery Index have already come back into our vocabulary in 2025. It will take several years and a dramatic shift in leadership before we have a healthy domestic economy again.

While the cranes may have made progress, the nation’s grassland birds, spread across 320 million acres in 14 states, have declined 43% since 1970, more than any other category, and are “in crisis,” according to the U.S North American Bird Conservation Initiative’s “U.S. State of the Birds” report released last month.

Dorothy Day, in her decades of activism from the 1910s to the 1980s, made common cause with American socialists, trade unionists, civil rights campaigners and anti-war protesters.

I’ve asked for clarification on the department’s directive related to diversity, equity and inclusion. But so far, we’ve received nothing. The silence is frustrating — and telling.