Both Mao and Trump achieved something few modern leaders have, a personality cult so complete it displaced ideology itself.

If Milwaukeeans want to avoid displacement and skyrocketing rents, they must demand their council members support the mayoral mandate they voted for.

44 of 132 legislators are now women.

If the One Big Beautiful Bill Act reaches President Trump’s desk, Congress must reject anything short of a complete elimination of Inflation Reduction Act green energy subsidies.

Energy use is growing and a blend of generation strategies will likely be needed to meet demand, with or without a fleet of data centers.

Court of Appeals rules that public bodies must explain why they are going into closed session.

Maryland Governor Moore’s reparations veto shows politics over progress.

Trump’s economic policy is driving costs and unemployment up.

How AI’s ability to lie at scale mirrors the idiocy of a movement that broke politics.

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst’s “we are all going to die” gaffe about Medicaid cuts at a recent town hall meeting in Iowa is now Exhibit A of Republican electoral vulnerability.

One of the most concerning provisions in the budget reconciliation bill would shift a large portion of the cost of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from the federal government to the states.

Some unkind souls have likened Tony Evers’s gubernatorial years to a zombie apocalypse, but I’m here to sort of defend the poor governor, especially about the apocalypse part.

Wisconsin’s Dem chairman ran interference for old Joe.

Congressional Republicans have lost their backbone and common decency. Their America is not for most of us. Beyond shame.

A country led by an authoritarian leader who thumbs his nose at the rule of law is not the America I know. And it certainly isn’t great.

Mr. President, unclench your fist and open your arms to those already here who deserve the privilege to remain.

The strange attacks on education aren’t confined to Trump’s tantrums over higher education. It is just as real to a different degree for public education here at home.

Walz will be Idea Fest’s marquee speaker on Friday night, Sept. 12, at the Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

There are elected officials, politicians, and public servants. The terms are often used interchangeably but to be clear, there is a difference. You could be one or the other, or if you were former U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel, you could be all three.