Cities tout costly plans for trains on route already served by commuter buses.

The authoritarian delusion holds in mind an imaginary hierarchical caste system, where the entire nation is found below it, except for those who donate to their coffers.

Americans are anxious and fearful. Lifting the Social Security payroll tax cap would be an important step in reassuring all Americans.

Instead of paying attention to serious economic issues, we’re building a ballroom, alienating our allies and solving a voter-fraud problem that doesn’t exist.

The U.N. vote called for maps that better reflect Africa’s true size. The U.S. was the only country to vote against it.

As we reflect on 9/11’s 25th anniversary, it is important to remember that there is more that unites us than divides us. We must come together, for the common good, again.

Even Congress came together, and politicians put down their swords to rally Americans against a new enemy. People began speaking to each other. Perhaps this is what we should remember.

Now, 25 years later, I still have trouble making sense of it all.

My responsibility that Tuesday was to get the story right. Today, I understand that I have another responsibility: to remember.

We must teach history — and vigilance.

After 25 years I am left with one question. As I look into the eyes of my veterans who carry the scars, the symptoms, the suffering of military service, I ask myself, “Was the cause worth the cost?”

Sept. 11 set the scene for a cursed 21st century so far.

I will say in the open what people have been whispering: Madison Metropolitan School District is as troubled as Milwaukee Public Schools is.

UW-Stout Polytechnic’s applied learning, career focus are responsible for an $858 million economic boost and 9,400 jobs statewide.

The main effect of the actual policy Vance is promoting will be to make the lives of already stressed working-class families, especially in Wisconsin, even harder, more expensive and noticeably worse than before.

The fest begins Friday, Sept. 18, and concludes on Saturday, Sept. 26, featuring 29 mostly in-person sessions over nine days.

It’s not that hard-to-believe endings to games haven’t happened before. But the introduction of gambling and the huge amounts of money at stake has added a new layer of conspiracy theories on why the improbable happens.

A simmering feud is emerging in Wisconsin’s higher-education “family.” Settling it in a way that helps all types of students, from those seeking job-related certificates to those pursuing four-year or graduate degrees, is a job that will fall to the next governor and Legislature.

Are the current maps partisan? Anti-competitive? Supreme Court must decide.