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Fabu: Black history is important beyond Black History Month
When you are Black, Black history is every day.

Joe Handrick: Evers’ gerrymandering hypocrisy
Governor Tony Evers made news yesterday, calling a special session of the Legislature to end partisan gerrymandering. This is akin to Jeffrey Dahmer issuing a call for safe neighborhoods.

LaKeshia Myers: Is your all on the altar?
There is an old hymn that asks a question so simple, yet so convicting, that it has echoed through sanctuaries and souls for generations: Is your all on the altar?

Dave Zweifel: How to use anti-racist policies for a racist cause
In a time where the likes of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty seek to roll back all efforts to atone for centuries of racial and class discrimination, a front-page story in the Chicago Tribune underscored just how sad it’s all become.

Daniel Buck: Can school board reform slate win in age of culture wars?
Four Tosa board candidates are a politically mixed bag, and their issue list isn’t a culture war playlist. It is financial accountability, teacher morale and retention, and academic performance.

Dave Cieslewicz: The waste of the Line 5 fight
It’s pretty much over now. After seven years of legal battles, the Enbridge pipeline, known as Line 5, is finally under construction. It’s a tragedy, but not for the reasons those who fought it think it is. In fact, it’s an environmental tragedy created by environmentalists.

Mike Shriberg: Supreme Court’s Line 5 pipeline case is about Native rights and fossil fuels, not just technical legal procedure
What began as a straightforward question from one water-quality advocate has morphed into a high-stakes battle over an oil pipeline at the highest levels of the U.S. government – with implications that go far beyond the fate of a technical legal conflict.

Richard Moore: Weaponizing a walk on the beach
If property-rights advocates aren’t on their toes, the next major expansion of government power in Wisconsin could come from expanding the public trust doctrine to seize even more land.

Michelle Bryant: Gun ownership and the Black community: A complex history and a call for safety
We need a balanced approach that respects gun rights while prioritizing safety and community well-being. Our community must help drive this conversation.

Melissa Agard: Dane County must live within our means
Ignoring or deepening the structural deficit would be irresponsible.

John Nichols: This is an unnecessary, unauthorized, and unconstitutional war
Congress has a duty to take up War Powers resolutions and assert its primacy over matters of war and peace.

John Torinus: Is Trump a hawk, dove, nation builder or what?
It has become almost impossible to make any sense of President Trump’s quixotic war-making policy. Is he a hawk or dove or something else? A screaming example is his ill-defined rationale and contradictory positions on two devastating bombings of Iran.

Mitchell A. Sobieski: When nostalgia politics turns false memories into loyalty and manufactured grievances into a weapon
The right’s greatest illusion has never been a policy. It is a story and a sentimental hallucination of America as a country that was once pure, simple, and united until outsiders corrupted it.

Steven Walters: The GOP’s promised tax-rebate checks are not in the mail
Republican leaders proposed returning most of the state’s projected $2.5 billion surplus to taxpayers.

Isaiah Ness: Wisconsin’s utility energy crisis
Poorly regulated public monopolies have created an overstretched, unevenly maintained power grid.

John Nichols: Hong shows strength in Wisconsin governor race
Why is Hong defying the odds?

Bill Kaplan: Rural Rx, make health care better, not worse
Future ACA and Medicaid cuts and policy changes will by 2034 result in 17 million, including 276,000 Wisconsinites, losing health coverage.

Jackson Walker: Ethnic studies courses required to graduate at all 13 four-year UW schools
The courses have been the subject of scrutiny for pushing left-leaning talking points.

Anthony Cruz: We must rethink how and when we prepare people for work
Dual enrollment allows high school students to earn college credit while completing their diplomas, giving them earlier exposure to postsecondary education and clearer pathways to careers.

Hannah Rosenthal: Reject bill to define antisemitism in Wisconsin law
Instead of fighting over divisive definitions, I propose a bipartisan task force to develop a government approach to fighting hatred, including antisemitism.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ debate who will pay the political price for rising energy costs
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss which party has a better message on energy costs facing voters in the 2026 midterm election. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for July 31
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss Mandela Barnes dropping out of the Dem primary for governor, how candidates performed during Tuesday’s debate, an appeal court upholding Act 10 and more.