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John Nichols: Wisconsin primary results could be shaped by wasted votes
Hughes, Rodriguez and Barnes will each register votes — and, in Barnes’ case, the total could be substantial.

Rachel Snyder: Madison’s Law Forward ramps up election protection efforts
As Wisconsin’s only nonpartisan, nonprofit law firm working full time to defend our democracy, Law Forward is standing up for Wisconsin voters in federal and state court.

Bill Kaplan: Vote for Crowley and Cooke
Crowley’s election wins, experience as a state legislator and county executive, and record of important accomplishments check all the boxes. Cooke will represent regular folks and take on corporate and reactionary interests.

Dan Knodl: If you need more power, bring your own energy
If a new facility requires additional generation capacity, transmission infrastructure, substations, or grid upgrades, the beneficiaries of those investments should bear the costs whenever possible.

Eric Howland: When phone calls in jails and prisons are free, everybody wins
The Worth Rises research shows that providing free phone calls are beneficial for the people locked up, the families of those people, the people working in the prisons and jails, and the communities.

Will Flanders and Scott Niederjohn: Time is needed to examine effectiveness of school choice
Several candidates for governor have pledged to bring school choice to a ‘responsible close,’ while others call for restrictions or changes. Before that debate goes further, let’s examine data.

James E. Causey: Behind the Gun: The conversation Milwaukee needs to have
A Milwaukee gun safety instructor believes prevention violence starts long before someone pulls a trigger.

John Torinus: Frontline warfare extinct? Economic war next?
A new book by Ram Charan warns that China means to take over the world economy, not militarily, but by nationalistic policies to dominate the top ten economic sectors in the world.

Dave Zweifel: Our flim-flam man puts the movie version to shame
The Government Accountability Office reported that all those hundreds of billions the flim-flam man and his DOGE stooge, trillionaire Elon Musk, allegedly saved the taxpayers last year was a bunch of malarkey.

Michelle Bryant: Crowley support: From lukewarm to doing the most
Crowley has become the great White, Black, Everything Hope. He is the candidate many Democrats suddenly view as the firewall against a Tom Tiffany governorship.

Scott Walker: The problematic case of Francesca Hong
A democratic socialist like state Rep. Francesca Hong could not win in Wisconsin just a few years ago. She would be considered too radical for the ultimate swing state. That, however, could change this year.

Dan Shafer: Beyond the race for governor
There are five Senate races and 17 Assembly races with primaries on the ballot. Many are in the Milwaukee area.

James Wigderson: Can Wisconsin elect someone normal to Congress?
A Trump endorsement may be thwarted.

Ruth Conniff: Building a better politics after Wisconsin’s messy primary
Here in Wisconsin, which long ago served as the laboratory for New Deal programs and progressive reforms that grew into lasting federal institutions, there is an opportunity to stand up and defend a better vision of society.

Tom Still: General election campaign for governor should stick to state issues
Now is the time for the winning Democratic candidate and presumptive Republican nominee Tom Tiffany to debate issues that matter to Wisconsin – especially as they relate to state government’s role in the economy and managing its major institutions. Here are two of many examples.

Bill Lueders: We must change how Madison police officers are trained
The tragic fatal shooting of Corey Ruiz is the latest example of the need for reform.

David Blaska: Madison progressive alder calls police monitor behavior ‘outrageous’
Alder agrees: ‘Burn this F-ing City down’ is “outrageous.”

Scott Niederjohn: Teaching economics, electing to ignore it
Wisconsin students learn what markets do for society, which a leading candidate seems not to get.

Michael Brandt: Trump’s empty communist threat
For at least the next 90 days, expect to hear a lot about communists “taking over the government.” In lieu of an explanation of what that means, expect no more than name-calling and finger pointing. If you identify as a liberal, a progressive or a democratic socialist, you will be accused of being a communist.

Bruce Murphy: Crowley is only one who could beat Hong
It’s a two-person race. Can the county executive make up the gap in one week?

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ examine the battle for control of the Wisconsin Legislature
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, review the upcoming races to control the Wisconsin Legislature and the issues that favor each party. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Sept. 18
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss Tom Tiffany’s plane crash, the U.S. Supreme Court halting President Trump’s mail-in balloting restrictions, oral arguments before the state Supreme Court in two cases challenging the state’s congressional lines and more.