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Russ Feingold, Jeff Mandell and Rachel Snyder: SCOTUS could reshape US campaign rules
Wisconsin’s nightmare could become America’s reality: elections for sale to the highest bidder, and citizens’ voices drowned out by billionaires’ checkbooks.

Steven Walters: Four-month redistricting fight looms over Wisconsin’s U.S. House districts
The state Supreme Court has created two panels to review the Republican-drawn maps.

Julian Bradley and Mattias Gugel: The payroll tax you don’t see — and the raise you don’t get
Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance system still taxes paychecks like it’s 1932.

Amy Curtis: Tammy Baldwin’s Obamacare subsidy olive branch backfires on her
When Democrats talk about the need to keep making “health care affordable,” but only offer up more subsidies and government intervention, they’re not serious about lowering costs.

Richard Moore: Evers, DHS launch war on scientific debate
Blue bureaucrats and their political partners aren’t interested in open scientific inquiry; they are interested in protecting those special interests who insist vaccines can’t and don’t play a role in autism.

LaKeshia Myers: Remembering Hydeia Broadbent: A voice that changed the world
As we observe World AIDS Day, we remember a champion who transformed how America understood HIV and AIDS. Hydeia Broadbent, the pioneering activist who passed away in February 2024 at age thirty-nine, spent her entire life fighting stigma and bringing hope to millions affected by the epidemic.

Gregg Hoffmann: Globe is warming quicker than projected
Ever since the Paris Climate Accords in 2015, 1.5 degrees Celsius has been the temperature many scientists talk about as a threshold for global warming. Few thought we had already blown by 1.5, until recently.

Terry Hansen: Denial of Gaza aid is a starvation strategy
This recent blockade is part of a much longer pattern: Israel’s restrictions on the movement of food into Gaza actually date back to 1991, well before Hamas came into power in 2006.

Jessie Rodriguez: Wrongful conviction compensation reform
Wisconsin decided 112 years ago that the state had an obligation to right their wrongs when the justice system fails its citizens. We cannot give back the centuries taken from exonerees, but we can take a step to make things right.

John Nichols: Unlike Tiffany, Barnes respects Wisconsin
Mandela Barnes carries forward the legacy of the modern Democratic Party of Nelson, Phillips and so many other progressive champions of economic, social and racial justice — a fact that Tiffany would do well to recognize, and respect.

Mark Lisheron: Majority of Wisconsin kids fall short in math as legislators consider fix
As math proficiency continues to decline in Wisconsin schools, the Legislature is considering a plan to improve numeracy, or the ability to work with numbers in daily life.

Paul Fanlund: MAGA is vulnerable in 2026, but Dems could screw it up
My focus is on a hope that Democrats will offer candidates who can win in places Democrats hardly ever do. To me, that gives the country the best chance of reversing damage Trump has done.

Bill Kaplan: Who’s to blame if ACA tax credits aren’t extended?
It’s long past time for Trump and congressional Republicans to extend the ACA tax credits.

Michelle Bryant: Words matter: Trump’s Dangerous Reckless and Racist Rhetoric on Somalia
Instead of governing with civility and respect, Donald Trump has once again chosen a path of division and disdain.

Shefaali Sharma: Trump left contraceptives to rot — and women paid the price
Under the Trump administration, the U.S. government ordered the destruction of nearly $10 million worth of U.S.–funded contraceptives, based on the false claim that birth control is an “abortifacient.”

Gregory Humphrey: Prime example of what is wrong with American politics
When a senator cannot muster even basic knowledge about a headline-making pardon or the courage to speak candidly, yet has endless energy for a culture-war grievance and the attacks on an aging American, it signals to this columnist that contempt for the public’s intelligence is on at full speed.

Arthur I. Cyr: Trump getting a bad rap on Ukraine
Given the fundamental values and ideals of our nation, seeking — and ideally, fulfilling — the role of committed peacemaker is directly in line with the human and egalitarian vales expressed brilliantly in our Declaration of Independence.

Judith Davidoff: Support local news — just don’t call it journalism
A new study informs strategies for talking with readers and donors.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ consider top issues before the Wisconsin Supreme Court
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider cases on the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s docket and other issues it may take up. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public leadership.

Scott Walker: Conservatives, take note of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Mandela Barnes
The most radical leftist up for governor could win.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ weigh in on charges against Milwaukee judge in ICE evasion case
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the FBI’s arrest of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, who is facing felony charges over accusations she helped an undocumented immigrant attempt to evade arrest by federal immigration officials. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for May 23
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the 2026 state Supreme Court race, the response from university leaders to potential federal student aid cuts, last weekend’s GOP state convention and more.