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Kristin Brey: What rigid support for 1849 abortion law says about Wisconsin Republicans
Grassroots Republicans are still embracing rigid views on abortion, despite a barrage of headlines detailing the deaths and suffering of women under similar bans.

Richard Moore: No, the SNAP bill is not nanny
So Make America Healthy Again finally found its way to Madison this month when lawmakers gave a pair of Republican-sponsored bills each a hearing, and while groups such as Wisconsin United for Freedom were ecstatic, and rightly so, some libertarian-ish types were reaching for their Tums.

Christy Schwan & Patty Keuck: Congress puts millions at risk of losing health care access
We must protect Medicaid for the millions who rely on it. Tell Congress not to endanger the health of our country.

John Nichols: GOP reps choose oligarchy over feeding the poor
By moving the United States another step toward the wealth-dominated oligarchy that FDR warned against, Tiffany and his fellow Republicans made American less equal, less free and more vulnerable to “the most ancient of mankind’s enemies.”

James Causey: Trump worries more about South Africa’s nonexistent genocide than real US racism
I have always believed the Trump administration contained a troubling undercurrent of racism. The question is how we confront this injustice moving forward.

Spencer Black: Democracy’s demise is happening bit by bit, in plain sight
Donald Trump and his administration are slowly but inexorably eroding our American democracy in multiple ways. The end result may not be all that different than a military takeover and suspension of constitutional government, but it’s happening incrementally and on many fronts.

Judy Karofsky: The assisted living industry affects us all
Our obligation is to work together to create and advance a care plan that will honor the defenseless and protect our most vulnerable. This is a call for action, a call to the people who have the ability and responsibility to make changes and regulate a critical industry. We want and need safe, affordable housing for our aging friends and family members—and for ourselves.

Sam Berman: We are called the greatest generation for good reason. Here’s why.
It is right and important that we remember and grieve with the families, the mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, who lost loved ones in America’s wars.

Dave Cieslewicz: The future of war
It’s Memorial Day, so let’s do some reflecting on war. Here’s my key reflection: the most dangerous thing we face right now may be the passing of the WW II generation. Here’s why.

Steven Walters: Three political veterans vie to head Wisconsin Democrats
The victor will succeed Ben Wikler.

Joe Handrick: Evers’ current map was no ‘least-change’ effort—it was a partisan play
If Evers were truly adhering to the court’s directive, he would have made the smallest possible changes to balance populations, not orchestrated a wholesale transfer of tens of thousands of voters to reshape electoral outcomes.

Bill Kaplan: GOP-led House passed cruel deceptive cuts
The GOP-led House passage of the misnamed “One Big Beautiful Act” cuts taxes mostly for the wealthy, shreds food aid and health care coverage, and massively increases the national debt.

Gregory Humphrey: Seriously harsh and fiscally unsound House budget bill requires Senate redo
Medicaid cuts are what the Senators will be most attuned to as they now take up the highly flawed and overly mean-spirited House bill.

David Blaska: Worse than Watergate
What did Democrats know and who will be held accountable?

Michelle Bryant: America for sale? Luxury over leadership
Under the Trump administration, a troubling narrative has emerged that America might as well have a metaphorical “For Sale” sign plastered across its forehead—or perhaps, more aptly, Uncle Sam’s.

Dave Zweifel: High-speed future hampered by ignorant politicians
It’s bizarre, but for some reason our politicians view fixing our infrastructure to accommodate faster and more reliable passenger trains as prohibitively expensive, but think nothing of building billion-dollar interchanges and adding a couple of lanes to highway corridors that cost billions more.

Ryan D. Jayne: Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding unaccountable private schools
Despite promises of choice and competition, voucher programs have repeatedly failed to demonstrate academic improvements for students.

Christopher Fons: Cutting the fat at MPS central office?
The jobs being eliminated are already of those working in classrooms.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ debate right of first refusal legislation for Wisconsin transmission line projects
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss legislation deadlocked in committee that would give utilities doing business in Wisconsin the right of first refusal for transmission line projects as utilities and transmission line companies lobby in support. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Alex Beld: Clean energy is the solution to our growing energy demand
By supporting clean energy solutions, energy efficiency measures, and creative management of our grid, we can reliably support the around-the-clock energy needs of data centers and the needs of everyday Wisconsinites.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss the next steps in Wisconsin’s budget process
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the budget-making process in Wisconsin as legislators remake Gov. Tony Evers’ budget proposal. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for May 16
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss new state revenue projections and tax cut negotiations, Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan’s not guilty plea to charges she obstructed immigration officials, the latest action in the state Legislature, this weekend’s GOP state convention and more.