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Bill Barth: Tariff lie exposed by refund process
Truth is usually the first casualty. The proof is clear on the international trade war kicked off with heavy tariffs on imported goods by the Trump administration.

Steven Walters: Questions for Wisconsin’s next governor
From a $2.36 billion surplus to child care, here are issues the nominees must answer for voters.

Charlie Sykes: Wisconsin Dems stare into the electoral abyss
And it may be a symptom of a much larger problem

John Nichols: Data centers take center stage in 2026 election
One of Wisconsin’s highest profile congressional candidates closed her primary campaign with a pivot toward the general election, focusing on an issue that barely existed at the start of the 2026 campaign season, but which could define the results this fall.

Kathy Bernier: Wisconsin is reaching back to 1849 to unsettle voters
Wisconsinites went to the polls this week under a warning from the state’s Elections Commission: place a trade on an election through a prediction market like Kalshi, then vote in that same race, and you could forfeit your ballot and commit a felony. It’s been 175 years since this law was written, and now it’s being weaponized against an industry that didn’t even exist a decade ago.

Mike McCabe: The room where it never happens
There are more than 2,000 political consulting firms operating across the country.

Patrick McIlheran: Why shut down schools that put kids more than a year ahead?
New study finds school choice is ‘like skipping a grade’ for working-class kids, yet critics would slam the door.

Natalie Eilbert: The next officer-involved shooting shouldn’t be inevitable
It’s time to go upstream and invest in transforming procedural justice, de-escalation trainings and early interventions. The families these officer-involved deaths have wrenched apart deserve better than resolved lawsuits. They deserve to see real change.

Gregg Hoffmann: Low water levels are concern
Low water levels in lakes and rivers in northern Wisconsin are creating concerns and adjustments in several areas.

Gregory Humphrey: A law gutted in broad daylight, Endangered Species Act under attack from Trump administration
The Act should be a shield used for protection, but the Trump Administration is operating in the opposite direction.

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.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ analyze the blue wave that flipped Wisconsin’s Legislature
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the political blue wave that swept Wisconsin Democrats into control of the state Legislature. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Nov. 6
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss the factors behind the blue wave in Wisconsin as Democrats win a trifecta and flip the 1st and 3rd CDs, the priorities of Gov.-elect David Crowley and the incoming Dem legislative majority, the wrangling for legislative leadership posts and more.