What the anti-government tax-cutters want is a society riven by resentment and anger, where people are divided against each other and the dysfunction makes it easy to “divide and conquer” as our last Republican governor memorably put it.

We need to fight disease and keep our nation healthy. Research done with NIH funding contributed to 99% of drugs developed over the last decade, and we cannot afford to stop the lifesaving research that we and future scientists will conduct.

Federal science cuts stall our mission.

Democrats wandering the political wilderness are flirting with Havana-style extremism rather than meeting voters where they live — in the middle.

In the 2024 election, we had, for the first time in a dozen years, a fair election for the state Legislature. However, Wisconsin’s eight congressional districts are still rigged to deny voters competitive elections.

FDR and Donald J. Trump are after the same outcome: more American workers getting paid more money to spend. FDR used the tools of the U.S. government; DJT is using tariffs. History could be writing about these two presidents as the strangest roommates since Oscar and Felix in the “Odd Couple.”

The summer season in Washington has turned into truly the Looney Tunes. We need to seriously ask what has become of actual old-fashioned leadership from both the White House and Congress?

At what point do we stop calling the ‘Late Show’ cancelation “just a business decision” and start calling it slow, strategic silencing of critics?

Colbert, NPR, PBS victims of low ratings and boring content.

Instead of focusing on the names of professional sports teams, maybe Trump should focus on releasing the Epstein files and lowering egg prices, as he promised.

Thirty-eight states have now opened their doors to gambling on all sports. Wisconsin, thank goodness, is still not one of them.

It involved only 193 ballots but ‘undermines public confidence in elections.’

Republican candidate for governor seems to have come from nowhere. Why the secrecy?

Let’s insist that the non-stories pushed by the MAGA zealots are not front and center in the looming governor and congressional races in Wisconsin.

Decision neutering lawmakers’ power to block agency rules means administrative state takes precedence over elected officials.

How AI’s environmental costs hit Black communities hardest.

This historic legislation delivers the largest tax cut in American history, putting more money back in your pocket and protecting benefits for the most vulnerable.

The Trump administration has been moving to gut all sorts of essential services for Americans. But one of the cruelest cuts came last week when, at the direction of the White House, the LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services program of the national 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline was eliminated.

People already know who Evers is and threatening he is not. He comes off like the school principal he once was.

Fair maps advocates and pro-democracy activists are looking to bring a new redistricting process to the state of Wisconsin, where the process is no longer in the hands of the very politicians who’d be running for office on those maps.