Teaching American pride matters more than ever in divided times.

Toxic masculinity, mental health issues, proliferation of guns.

Gun thefts have risen by 42% in 16 large cities, with Milwaukee fourth highest.

This year features appearances by Pulitzer Prize winners Maureen Dowd of the New York Times and Eugene Robinson, formerly of the Washington Post. And there will be others.

The culture war in America — on abortion and other issues — threatens the very foundation of this free country, which was built on compromise and, as the motto says, E Pluribus Unum, out of many, one.

This budget reflects a strong commitment to fiscal responsibility while making important investments that will improve the quality of life for all Wisconsinites.

Evers didn’t get all he wanted but GOP didn’t get much at all.

Madison progressives can ask him soon.

Contrary to Van Orden’s triumphant tweets, he did not “secure” $1 billion for rural health care in Wisconsin.

Let’s not wait for another tragedy. Every school in America should have a plan. Every staff member should know their role. Every student and educator should be part of a culture of readiness.

The following is and excerpt from Forward for the People: The Autobiography of America’s Longest Serving Legislator, by former Wisconsin state Sen. Fred Risser and Doug Moe, © 2025 by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Reprinted with permission. Chapter

This was a budget with intense negotiations and compromises from both sides. But Legislative Republicans remained principled and ensured we delivered a budget with conservative wins for hardworking families.

To be sure, over the years the school has on occasion floundered, and it needs to be called out when it does. But it remains a key to Wisconsin’s economic and educational future. And state legislators need to understand that.

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican legislative leaders, in a welcome bipartisan compromise, included UWM in the capital budget with $189 million for the long overdue renovation of the old Columbia Hospital, known as the Northwest Quadrant. UWM bought it 15 years ago.

In April 1964, Alabama Governor George Wallace entered the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary as a defiant challenger to the mainstream liberal consensus.

Environmentally, the grossly misnamed “big beautiful bill” is ugly as sin. The recently passed legislation is an ecological disaster.

Our ancestors’ response to their delayed independence was to creatively turn previous mourning into new-found joy by starting the Juneteenth Celebration on the actual day of their release, June 19, now a federal holiday.

In today’s highly charged political environment, in which a president’s handling of international crises, however competent or inept, is immediately subject to hyperbole and sanctification by supporters and in press conferences and tweets — sometimes by the president himself — it’s important to remind ourselves how some American presidents spoke publicly about past crises with clarity, humility and measured prose.

For first time in 14 years, Republican leaders needed Democratic votes.

The expanded retirement income exclusion will undermine the tax code’s neutrality and shift burdens onto working families over time, while yielding far less “bang for the buck” than other more pro-growth reforms.