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Russia’s bloody invasion of Ukraine has sparked an Olympic sprint of sorts as politicians run away from their abysmal records regarding Vladimir Putin. Few are running faster than former President Barack Obama, who this week tried to rewrite the history of his own Russia policies.
Tony Evers blew chance to improve Wisconsin's elections
We didn’t make enough of a deal about Ketanji Brown Jackson.
TOWN OF CHRISTIANA — As someone who lives near Cambridge in southeast Dane County, and as an intervenor against the Koshkonong solar project, I take offense when I and my community are called NIMBYs, which stands for “not in my backyard.”
MOBILE, Ala. — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his Trumpist compatriots are still waging a battle against immigrants down at the southern border — claiming that brown-skinned migrants pose an imminent threat, insisting on building a wall and busing migrants to the nation’s capital.
Wealthy elites and developers gobble up acres as farmers age
When Russia launched its attack on Ukraine, a wide variety of commentators believed at least one silver lining was in this catastrophic cloud. Vladimir Putin’s assault on the liberal order, they hoped, would expose and delegitimize the illiberal, populist forces that have been surging for years.
Haiti passed a grim milestone in February, when the traditional presidential inauguration day came and went with no president taking the oath of office, no realistic prospect of presidential elections, and no established consensus on how to restore some semblance of functioning democracy in …
Go after the hated rich. Make up phony stories. Hit them hard with taxes on their wealth. Listen to the applause. Figure on Democrats now winning the midterm elections, and pretend it’s all about debt reduction and compassion for the average American.
Episode 36: Richard Kyte and Scott Rada also talk about the ethical considerations that go into designing our infrastructure.
Commentary: Instead of encouraging our young people to work through loneliness and to embrace solitude, we teach them to fear it.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about last weekend’s French election isn’t who won, but who lost — and what it might mean for America.
Second train to Minneapolis would boostaccess to Wisconsin, including the Dells
Michael Paul Williams — a columnist with the Richmond Times-Dispatch — won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary "for penetrating and historically insightful columns that guided Richmond, a former capital of the Confederacy, through the painful and complicated process of dismantling the city…
Biden's moratorium subsidizes high earners at expense of other Americans
This State Journal editorial ran on April 11, 1872:
The gruesome images of slain civilians in Bucha and other liberated towns near Kyiv have been met with furious rhetoric from Western politicians.
We don’t need more unity.
The Madison School Board has appointed a renaming committee to change the name of Jefferson Middle School, after changing the name of James Madison High School last year.
On Apr. 2, the Tribune published a letter from a suburban reader who had visited the Tiffany & Co. jewelry store on Michigan Avenue and made a modest purchase, in part so his granddaughter could enjoy the cachet of the signature turquoise gift bag. But before the reader left the store, t…
Madison moves fast.
This year marks the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Har Gobind Khorana — or so we think. The exact date of his birth is not known, because Khorana was born in poverty in a British Indian class that rarely recorded such dates. As a child, he had to beg a neighbor for a glowing e…
How do you solve a problem like Marjorie?
The House moved last week to cap the cost of insulin, and Democrats think they’ve found a winner to save seats in November. What ghoul could oppose cheaper insulin?