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Courtney Graves: The unintended consequences of the Affordable Care Act
How the ACA led to soaring insurance premiums and rapid market consolidation.

Bruce Murphy: Tiffany is a leading election denier
GOP U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald were the state’s only lawmakers voting to overturn Biden’s presidential victory in the key swing states of Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Prescott Balch: Caledonia’s Microsoft rejection – the other side of the story
We wanted our village board to assess the risks identified and either slow way down or stop the deal because we felt the risks set the village up for significant harm in the short and long-term. Our objections were not based on emotion or anti-development ideology. Our objections were fact-based and numerical.

Dave Krause: Wisconsin Investment Board crypto moves masterclass in disciplined management
The Wisconsin pension fund’s Bitcoin investments were a masterclass in disciplined fiduciary management that most commentators completely misunderstood.

LaKeshia Myers: The Hop: Building our transit future or abandoning our economic promise?
Milwaukee Hop is more than a downtown amenity. It represents the critical first step toward establishing regional transit authorities in Wisconsin, which remain prohibited by state law. This prohibition hasn’t just hindered Milwaukee; it has hobbled economic development across our entire state.

William Holahan: Market economic principles can protect us from radical economics
The chaotic tariff policy and the massive cuts to basic scientific research erode our ability to lead, innovate, and enable our citizenry to afford their accustomed daily activities. They render our nation increasingly dependent on foreign innovation, less competitive, less secure and ultimately, less free.

John Torinus: Trump’s tariff wars: self-defeating
Trump needs to get his tariff obsession done with so the economy-wrecking uncertainty is put to rest.

Mitchell A. Sobieski: Why the political arguments used by conservatives to twist the Second Amendment are a public fraud
For decades, conservatives in America have shouted that the Second Amendment exists to protect citizens from government tyranny.

Gregory Nemet and Morgan Edwards: Despite Trump moves, COP30 will show efforts to curb planet warming persist
Even before this latest addition to the long list of foreboding climate records, a spring Gallup poll showed a record number of Americans view global warming as a serious threat to them personally.

Richard Moore: Josh Kaul’s crusade to bureaucratize religion
Wisconsin attorney general Josh Kaul has decided that if the U.S. Supreme Court won’t let him discriminate against Catholic Charities when it comes to a religious tax exemption, then he’ll take a wrecking ball to the tax exemption itself.

David Crowley: Making Wisconsin work for working families
As governor, I’ll make it my top priority to make life more affordable for everyone.

George Mitchell: Fact-checking a School Choice critic
Urban Milwaukee editor Bruce Murphy skates past key evidence and bases a major claim on factual errors.

Bruce Murphy: Wisconsin is creating 2 school systems
At what point will taxpayers rebel against the high costs?

Shale Horowitz: Why the far left opposes a law defining antisemitism and why Wisconsin needs it
The IHRA definition covers not just the traditional antisemitism most common on the far right, but also the newer antisemitism more prevalent on the far left.

Bill Kaplan: It’s un-American to hurt the hungry and sick
Stop the cruelty, extend the ACA tax credits and end the shutdown.

Dave Zweifel: GOP priorities on display in ACA face-off
Just as the sign-up period for folks whose health care has been subsidized by the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare for short — is to begin for 2026, enrollees were told to expect having to pay a lot more. As much as 800% more, in fact.

Michelle Bryant: Did Trump really just demolish 123 years of history?
We need legislative action to ensure that we never witness this type of individualized power and assault on our nation’s landmarks.

Dave Cieslewicz: Tuesday’s just Tuesday
When the smoke clears, I don’t think this off-off year election with a highly selective electorate will amount to a tea leaf worth reading. In the end it’ll be just another Tuesday.

Gregg Hoffmann: Study: Over half of earth’s land ‘unsafe’
A new study maintains that roughly 60% of global land has already crossed the safe zone for maintaining life supporting ecosystems.

James E. Causey: Here’s how Black Men Organizing is improving Milwaukee
Black Men Organizing has been working for a year and a half to change the negative statistics impacting African Americans in Milwaukee.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss candidates running for Wisconsin Supreme Court
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the candidates running in the spring Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Oct. 17
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk and Associated Press Capitol Correspondent Scott Bauer discuss the 7th CD race, the governor’s race, the latest action in the state Senate and Assembly, and more.