The White House is seemingly perplexed by the ever-sinking poll numbers of Joe Biden.
Recently, a former employee of Deutsche Bank hit the jackpot. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission awarded this publicly unnamed whis…
Search “toxic parents” on Instagram, and you’ll find more than 38,000 posts, largely urging young adults to cut ties with their families. The …
For nearly 50 years, the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling has protected a woman’s right to an abortion. It also protected many politicians’ …
I spent my teens in a rural area of upstate New York in the 1970s. We watched a lot of PBS. At Christmastime, the local PBS station ran the 19…
Why would they do this?
At least we’re learning. Remember when the early reaction to the outbreak of a deadly virus in Wuhan was to discourage people from changing th…
The subtext of two prominent trials in recent weeks is vigilantism, the questionable notion that the institutions that we depend on—the police…
The American Library Association fully supports the right of every parent to control what their child reads and to select alternative reading …
“You’re for censorship! That’s against the First Amendment!”
“You’re for censorship! That’s against the First Amendment!”
Intense debate over the Build Back Better legislation has triggered stern lectures by fiscal conservatives about government spending. The legi…
This week, a 39-year-old Black man in Waukesha plowed a maroon Ford Escape into a Christmas parade of children and older women. Six people wer…
It is Thanksgiving weekend. I know that for many it is the launch of a busy and hectic holiday period. I, myself, will be rushing to get the l…
During an hourlong sit-down on his Fox News program Monday night, Tucker Carlson canonized the deadly actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen wh…
The question often comes up whether the changes in climate over the last few decades are due to human caused “global warming” or whether it’s …
There was a time, not so long ago, when Michael Flynn’s latest pronouncement would have been considered outrageous, but I’m afraid we’ve reach…
I was 27 years old and working as a consultant when I decided it was time for a job change. A few days before I was set to leave, a secretary …
Thanksgiving means actual, not contrived, inclusiveness. President Abraham Lincoln profoundly demonstrates this fundamental point.
It’s like something out of middle school.
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Two contrary police reform measures—one to increase police officers in Austin, Texas, and another to decrease them in Minneapolis—went before …
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Being able to read a map is a good thing. Writing a map to overthrow American elections—not so much.
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After five years of political, economic and social upheaval in America, this month has seen some hints of a return to normalcy. The question i…
Last week, a friend texted me this prediction about the outcome of Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial: “Kyle Rittenhouse walks or only (gets conv…
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Isabella Tichenor killed herself a few days ago. She was 10 years old.
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If you reside in the city of Janesville, I suggest stocking up on Folgers and making sure your coffee maker still works. That might be the onl…
Aaron Rodgers is a selfish man.
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On Aug. 6, 2020, after numerous scandals at the National Rifle Association, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit seeking to…
I am writing to encourage you to contact your state representatives in support of 2021 Assembly Bill 619 which concerns the decriminalization …
Veterans Day, celebrated this Thursday, Nov. 11, is cause for contemplation as well as celebration. Parades featuring people in uniform—those …
As the work of the Jan. 6 Committee is framed more and more consistently as a purely political issue, it’s easy to be cynical about how relent…
She slammed down her white privilege like you’d slam down an American Express black card. Which is to say, with supreme confidence.
The U.S. is experiencing an unusual surge of strikes—10,000 John Deere workers went on strike in October, and so did 1,400 Kellogg workers, an…
What would happen if Republican legislators got their wish and Meagan Wolfe, administrator of the state Elections Commission, resigned?
Democrats can certainly try to convince themselves that the Virginia gubernatorial defeat is no big deal. All kinds of rationales are available.
The Consumer Price Index has been increasing at close to a 5% annual rate. The Federal Reserve just announced its plans to begin tapering its …
This week, as a Wisconsin court began a trial involving a protest of police abuse that turned deadly when Kyle Rittenhouse opened fired on pro…
At some point the economy will return as the No. 1 concern of people who vote—if it hasn’t already.
It seems to be a rite of passage that as technology billionaires get older, they spend more time chasing dreams they might have fantasized abo…
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Maybe white students deserve more credit than they get. Maybe—apologies to The Who—the kids are all right.
When the pandemic first began, few people quit their jobs immediately, but many lost them as companies navigated the unchartered territory tha…
President Joe Biden recently declared it a top priority of his administration to remedy supply chain problems that are exacerbating shortages …
There will now be three investigations—by the Legislative Audit Bureau, the Assembly and the Senate—into how November 2020 elections were run …
Cities across the country are witnessing one of the pandemic’s long-term consequences: reduced workforce in city centers. With many companies …
This week, the president took a trip to Virginia to try to help salvage the gubernatorial prospects of fellow Washington lifer Terry McAuliffe…
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If the American experiment dies, the cause will be terminal bothsidesism.
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As police misbehavior goes, it was a small thing.
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Granted, you’re probably infuriated that the fascist putsch plotters continue to roam free. Which means you’re probably asking yourself, on a …
Active social media users are likely to assure you that bipartisanship is dead—and for good reason. These platforms have ensured that the most…
When I was, like, 17, I didn’t eat for three solid days. Ten pounds had to go—immediately. The period of starvation crowded out every other th…
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What should we jettison from President Joe Biden’s proposed “Build Back Better” plan?
Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia set the political world ablaze this week with the news—swiftly denied, it should be said—that he is consider…
Researchers are reporting tragic increases in rates of domestic violence—a “pandemic within a pandemic”—across the country.
Thousands of Haitian people have been flooding the U.S. borders, making headlines in recent days. These headlines have called attention to har…
For the most part, it seems that Wisconsinites would choose not to live in California.
On Oct. 26, 2001, Congress passed the U.S. PATRIOT Act. As one of Wisconsin’s two U.S. senators at the time, I cast the lone vote against it.
Despite the many blessings of living in America, why aren’t more Americans happy?
The Biden administration is hypocritical in simultaneously imposing a moratorium on the federal death penalty and urging that the Supreme Cour…
I’ve got something to say about “you people.”