No Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in their first 22 months on the court has had more influence than Justice Brian Hagedorn.
A survey of almost 2,000 parents of kids ages 5 to 11 in Britain found that most parents aren’t letting their kids play outside, unsupervised,…
Facebook’s tyrannical blacklisting of former President Donald Trump, an elected politician 74 million Americans voted for, is wholly un-Americ…
The New York Times reports that “Pfizer Reaps Hundreds of Millions in Profits From Covid Vaccine.” The pharma giant Pfizer earned revenues of …
Kudos to Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney. Her House GOP leadership post hangs by a thread because she refuses to mouth Trump’s big lie about a stolen …
Its Constitution fixed the value of African Americans at three-fifths that of other humans.
I have not been a fan of Texas—the land of big belt buckles and big just about everything else.
Four Democrats have introduced a bill that would add four seats to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the bill passes, and if President Joe Biden succ…
“Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!”
When told to wear face masks two pandemic-plagued winters ago, we thought: “Can’t wait until this is over and we no longer have to wear a piec…
The Department of Defense accounts for one of the largest chunks of our country’s overall budget. In 2021, the president’s budget request for …
Thanks, Wisconsin Policy Forum, for a flagrant act of research: Federal pandemic economic stimulus aid approved so far will total a stunning $…
Comparing Democrats and Republicans on any measure of masculinity says the obvious. Compared to Democrats, Republicans are dripping with testo…
I was very saddened to hear about the passing of former UW-Whitewater staff member Paul Yvarra. The university lost one of its finest instruct…
Bring on 2022.
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You’ve probably heard about what happened at Van Hise Hall at UW-Madison this month: Two concrete slabs broke off the façade and crashed to th…
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Republican pollster Frank Luntz met last weekend with 17 vaccine-resisting Trump voters to better understand why they won’t take the simple st…
President Joe Biden’s executive order creating a commission on the Supreme Court purports to “provide an analysis of the principal arguments i…
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A pro football analogy seems to fit.
In anticipation of the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, a two-day global gathering of more than 40 world leaders held last week, President J…
UW-Whitewater hosted the first of three public hearings on the state budget April 9. I’m pleased that the first of the “roadshow” hearings was…
All hail: The wicked Castros are finally gone.
These tragic cases happen all too often, and I find myself wondering what would happen if such an incident ever occurred locally.
I sat there trying to remember how to breathe.
Earth Day 2021 finds a country overwhelmed by interconnecting crises. A worldwide pandemic, an economic disaster, racial discord and, overarch…
On a Monday, there is a data leak affecting half a billion Facebook accounts. By Tuesday, a bot has scraped 500 million LinkedIn accounts. The…
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had a warning for American business: “Our private sector must stop taking cues from the Outrage-Industr…
“The anguish we are suffering cannot translate into violence.”
Last October, I spoke on the phone with a man in Virginia. He wanted to know how to help the hundreds of immigrant kids he had seen in the new…
Harriet the Spy. Encyclopedia Brown. Meg and brother Charles Wallace, Ramona, Beezus, Pippi and that “My Side of the Mountain” kid (what was h…
Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Devin LaMahieu was 8 years old when he watched his father, Daniel, work to elect Republican Ronald Reagan as …
In an advisory referendum on the ballot April 6, voters favored Wisconsin accepting additional Medicaid funding to provide health care coverag…
There is nothing sacred about nine.
When Henry Ford introduced the Model T in 1908, he had a problem. There were almost no paved roads in the United States. To sell his product t…
America has been wrecked on the shoals of identity.
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Republican state Sen. Howard Marklein, cochair of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, had a question for Carolyn Stanford Taylor, state…
Wisconsin’s Legislature is run by drunken sailors.
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There was a surprising moment of levity at a recent Senate Finance Committee hearing. And it came in the midst of a rather dry discussion on U…
Once again, Ukraine is emerging as a focus of tension between Russia, the United States and Europe. An always-uncertain cease-fire has broken …
This week, on the basis of whole-cloth lies, major corporations went to political war with the state of Georgia.
“We are not supporting doing any vaccine passports in the state of Florida,” declared Gov. Ron DeSantis. “It’s completely unacceptable,” he sa…
State Ethics Commission reports show the Tony for Wisconsin campaign fund had $3.3 million on hand Jan. 1.
We’re all tired and frustrated from over a year of restrictions and limitations due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Please don’t bother claiming this is about election fraud.
Our lawmakers need to hear from you that you strongly support renewal of the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund for another 10 years.
If you hope to share your personal worries, hopes or dreams with the committee’s 16 legislators at a hearing, here’s how to prepare.
The question is what is absolutely needed now and what can wait?
Serious, sensitive, tangled negotiations aimed at bringing peace to Afghanistan have now reached and surpassed the six-month mark. Many knowle…
State—not federal—judges could play important roles in protecting voters’ rights in lawsuits over changes in election laws enacted after dispu…
Mother Nature never expected kids to get through 18 years without some tears and fears and jeers. That's why kids are innately resilient.
The effort to undo the Senate's legislative filibuster is an unAmerican, Constitution-eroding, radical play to nationalize politics.
Wisconsin state shared revenue recipients, we have a problem.
What we need to get rid of is “leaders” who do not venerate America’s core mission, its truths held self-evident.
One of the most under-reported aspects of the American Rescue Plan are its provisions to bolster and expand the Affordable Care Act.
Democrats would be wise to at least applaud politely when stock markets sing of a new age of abundance now that they're in charge.
If petty partisanship prevails, people here in Wisconsin will end up paying what amounts to a $1.6 billion tax on stupidity.
Whether Cuomo has lost the confidence of New Yorkers can be made clear on Election Day 2022.
This year’s debate over how to spend the next COVID-19 federal cash—$3.2 billion for state government—will differ in two important ways from 2009-10.
Safety is always the reason given for restricting freedom and increasing surveillance.