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Sarah Keyeski: Taking action to lower costs for working class Wisconsinites
While our state sits on a surplus of $4 billion, I believe it’s high time we invest that money to improve the quality of life for Wisconsinites.

Sara Gabler: Workday and the excesses of higher-ed “efficiency” consultants
In higher ed, consulting fees and big technology buys go hand-in-hand with austerity.

Terrance Wall: My visit to Hillsdale College
Unlike at public universities, like the UW, where other students and I felt afraid to speak our minds or disclose the love of our country or even mention God, at Hillsdale, students and teachers can talk their minds.

Jim Geraghty: Beware the spin about a judge’s arrest for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant escape
If the events occurred as described in the affidavit of criminal complaint against circuit court judge Hannah Dugan are accurate, then she committed obstruction of justice and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest, and it’s extremely difficult to envision an alternate interpretation of the known facts that would exculpate Judge Dugan.

Jeffrey Mandell and Norman Eisen: Wisconsin has a history of fighting injustice. Judge Dugan is the latest example.
Like the effort to return Joshua Glover to slavery, this is a bad case, built on bad law, pursued for bad reasons.

Mark Belling: Feds: We have a warrant. Milwaukee judge: So what?
What makes Dugan’s action especially revolting is that she is a judge. ICE and the FBI had a warrant. How can a judge defy a warrant? What does Dugan do when somebody defies one of her judicial warrants?

Lucy Ripp: The cost of Trump’s first 100 days
From reckless tariffs that are raising our cost of living and hurting local farmers to ripping jobs away from thousands of Wisconsin workers and cutting off funding that ensures kids have food to eat and families have health care — in its first 100 days, the Trump regime wasted no time causing real harm to Wisconsin families and communities.

Dave Zweifel: GOP pulling nation back to era of ‘separate and unequal’
The problem with the Trump administration’s anti-DEI crusade is that it doesn’t distinguish between what works and what doesn’t.

David Blaska: America needs friends, even if they are Canadian
Friends come and go; enemies accumulate. Lyin’ Ted may have needed to kowtow, Canadians don’t and won’t.

Gregory Humphrey: Trump’s tariffs vs. Chinese who ‘patiently take the long view against impatient interlocutors’
Over the past weeks, the bluster and shoot-from-the-hip mentality of Trump, along with the haphazard moves regarding tariffs, has further informed China that they can outmaneuver this White House.

Steven Walters: New Capitol models of lawmaking evolve
Republicans put four constitutional changes before voters last year, passing two of them.

Ron Malzer: Brad Schimel didn’t stand a chance
In the case of the People of Wisconsin versus Elon Musk, Susan Crawford got to write the opinion for the majority in Wisconsin. And it was Justice Marshall, in absentia, concurring.

Bruce Murphy: The patriotism of Hannah Dugan
Milwaukee judge who loves the U.S. Constitution and history has fueled a national controversy.

David Blaska: Democrats are stuck on fly paper
No one is above the law — except progressive judges.

Luanna H. Meyer: Cutting Medicaid wouldn’t make America great again. It would make America cruel.
Cuts to Medicaid means denying millions of Americans access to desperately-needed supports and the right to live with dignity.

Rich Eng and Lena Eng: We’re Republican and Christian. Trump is wrong to order these refugees to leave.
President Trump’s administration revoked the legal status of Christians who face death if forced to return to Taliban-led Afghanistan.

Steven Elbow: Attack on democracy not as bad as you think — it’s far worse
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.

John Nichols: At the 100-day mark, support for Trump is collapsing
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.

Richard Kyte: Democracy relies upon a self-imposed rule of law
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.

Bruce Murphy: Hannah Dugan and the battle over ICE
Judge Dugan and Gov. Evers demand due process and are vilified for this.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ consider how Wisconsin’s Supreme Court results could impact 2026 elections
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the effect of the recent Supreme Court election on Wisconsin elections in 2026. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for April 11
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss a deal to settle a complaint against Michael Gableman related to his 2020 election review, a Dem bill that would make it illegal to offer payment for signing a petition during an election, a new GOP transmission line and energy bill, President Trump’s tariffs and more.