In 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of “conspiracy to commit espionage” and executed for sharing top-secret information about the U.S. nuclear program with the Soviet Union. 

The Democratic gubernatorial nominee who emerges from the Aug. 14 primary will have precious little time to campaign against Scott Walker. The candidates are not well-known by Wisconsin voters, and none of them will have resources approaching Walker’s to help get out their messages.

After suffering through 15 years of former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke’s bizarre antics and deadly incompetence, residents have the opportunity to turn the department into one they can be proud of by electing Earnell Lucas.

It sometimes seems judges spend more time creating convoluted legal arguments to justify preconceived opinions than they do considering the facts of a case and the applicable law. We believe that’s how the Wisconsin Supreme Court reached its decision ordering Marquette University to reinstat…

Scott Walker owes much of his political success to his shameless exploitation of racism. Whenever he needs to solidify his base ahead of an election, he raises the specter of evil: "broken" Milwaukee, which is home to 65 percent of the state’s African Americans

Former state Rep. Mandela Barnes is stoked. He’s talking about plans to put Wisconsin on a fast track to the future by creating an infrastructure that supports homegrown business startups and making the state a more desirable place to live for young people. His enthusiasm is palpable as he d…

After the giddiness of the Obama years, the last 15 months have been a brutal reminder that the graph of social progress isn’t a straight, upward line. It’s a line as jagged as sharks’ teeth.

I’m no dancing queen.

My mom called a few weeks ago with news that the little blue bungalow next door to where I grew up was being sold.

In his bid for a third term as Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker is scrambling to create a positive narrative of his economic leadership. With worker shortages, fleeing millennials, a shrinking middle class, and a backward approach to almost everything, that’s a tall order.

The past year has given the nation one of its most profound cases of cultural whiplash in memory — and women are at its heart.

After you’ve bought a house, you can refinance your mortgage when a lower interest rate is made available. Millions of Americans have taken advantage of this opportunity, using the extra money they save from lower interest payments to improve their homes, pay for healthcare or put their chil…

One of the state’s greatest ethical flaws is the absence of a rule requiring Wisconsin Supreme Court justices to recuse themselves in cases involving their major campaign donors.

“It was like a video game only it was real,” a witness to the Las Vegas carnage told National Public Radio in the aftermath of the nation’s latest “largest mass shooting in history.”

Victims of Superstorm Sandy can be forgiven if they’re not feeling very sympathetic toward the Texas congressional delegation and its voters. After all, 23 out of 24 members of the Texas Republican delegation did their best to hold up federal relief funding for the devastation Sandy left beh…

A number of major nonprofit organizations have announced recently that they’re canceling fundraisers at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida.

Wisconsin Republicans are trumpeting Foxconn’s stated interest in building a massive flat-screen-display manufacturing facility in the state. They say it’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the state’s economy.

Do Wisconsin Republicans really believe marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol? Or is their stubborn resistance to legalizing pot, even for medical purposes, just more conservative demagoguery?

When Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield announced it would cancel about 14,000 of its individual insurance plans in Wisconsin next year, Republicans pinned the blame on the Affordable Care Act.

Christian doctrine teaches that God is a Holy Trinity. Wisconsin Republicans believe in the opposite: the unholy trinity of Donald Trump, Scott Walker and Paul Ryan.

Wisconsin Republicans win elections the old-fashioned ways: gerrymandering districts and disenfranchising voters unlikely to support them.

The Republican right was livid when the University of California–Berkeley — a renowned bastion of liberalism — canceled a speaking engagement by Ann Coulter, whom Politico has dubbed the “doyenne of the deplorables.” Threats of violent protests prompted the cancellation.