MADISON – Much of the news about the COVID-19 pandemic has been trending somewhere between bad and awful.
As Joe Biden’s lead in the polls continues to expand both nationally and in battleground states, a new explanation for his surge is taking hol…
President Donald Trump is sending federal law enforcement into the big cities run by Democratic mayors, where murder and gang shootings are ou…
As the Trump administration takes its “law and order” show on the road after a dress rehearsal at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., and a …
America is under siege. Coast to coast, America is under attack. Not by foreign enemies. Not by terrorists. America’s under attack by goon squ…
I expected despair. I should have known better.
Back in October of 2018, music and fashion mogul Kanye West took a trip to the Oval Office, ostensibly to discuss criminal justice reform with…
MADISON, Wis. — Vannevar Bush is a giant of American science and technology whose name you’ve likely never read or heard … but probably should.
If the Trump family had never existed, someone would have invented them.
All of the appropriate people are mortified and deeply concerned about the death of 20-year-old Spc. Vanessa Guillen.
For the past 40 years, I’ve made my living traveling Wisconsin as a singer-songwriter. During that time, I was never “unemployed” — until Marc…
We often hear that what this country needs is an honest conversation about race.
MADISON — Some people would be tempted to blame pointy-headed campus intellectuals for the abrupt demise of the Trump administration’s attempt…
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s great political strength is his studied affability.
MIAMI — The on-again, off-again opening and closing of restaurants in Miami has angered restaurant owners in the area. Last week, 30 of them g…
Roger Stone is an infamously execrable force in American politics. Perhaps his only saving grace is that he’s not a hypocrite about it.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s televised tirades against Sen. Tammy Duckworth conveyed a very specific message to Trump voters:
President Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of his longtime friend and political adviser Roger Stone just days before Stone was …
Our Founding Fathers, in all of their wisdom, for all of their love of democratic ideals, were nevertheless always fearful of populace rule.
Like thousands and thousands of others, I spent two-and-a-half hours on Friday night watching the streaming version of “Hamilton” on Disney+ w…
Author’s note: My grandmother once wrote about a tragic experience in her life that changed it forever. Her story is based on an essay she sub…
Donald Trump’s half-right when he says there’s a dangerous movement underway in the country.
Yet another chapter in the U.S.’s racial awakening seems to be unfolding.
The state Supreme Court has declined to fast track a case seeking to force from the rolls thousands of Wisconsin voters who may have moved, ma…
I didn’t watch President Trump’s weekend speeches live. It was a holiday, so I chose to take one. As a result, I first learned about them from…
MADISON — An enduring strength of the American education system is local control. While President Trump may fume about cutting off federal sup…
We live in a complicated world where once easy things are more difficult. COVID-19 has complicated all of our lives, slowing us down and forci…
While the attention of media, elected officials and community leaders has been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, another crisis — opioid addic…