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If Wisconsinites really do want our government to stop racially discriminating, we’ll need to put it in our constitution.

Business and city leaders in Janesville are warning of the long-term economic damage of citizens taking direct control over major development in the city.

One important factor remains missing from Wisconsin’s education dashboards: family structure.

The average Wisconsin household is 0.2 persons smaller than the national average of 2.53 people.

Sales tax exemption isn’t a subsidy but a common shield against increasing consumers’ prices with hidden levies.

Why do Wisconsin politicians want to close schools providing measurably great education for working-class kids?

Wisconsin’s own economics standards consistently teach the importance of prices, profits, competition, incentives and property rights, while one of the state’s leading candidates for governor campaigns without admitting or even seeming to understand their value.

Overall spending by the federal and state governments on Medicaid has never once been reduced since Congress approved the program in 1965.

One recent July morning in a riverside woods west of Eau Claire, 13 high-schoolers took turns firing practice versions of PepperBalls at an old steel drum and un-abolishing the police.

Florida’s politics, suggests Owens, which are more confidently conservative than in Wisconsin.

The share of Wisconsin adults who are currently married has fallen in recent years to its lowest level since the 1880 census.

“The days of white liberal guilt are coming to an end and thank God for it.”

A growing number of Wisconsin communities are choosing to act against considerable economic interest and sit out the data center revolution.

About 5.2 percent of Wisconsin’s population in 2023 was born outside of the United States, the highest share since 1960, data from the U.S. Census Bureau show.

Public school district leaders are thinking about what scholarships from private donations through a new federal tax credit program the will do for their students.

When girls at New Richmond High School complained that their privacy was being invaded, those authorities in essence told girls they were the problem.

The Wisconsin Legislature’s “Socialist Caucus” drafted a bill that would add a 17.7% top bracket for households earning $1 million.

The comparison to Milwaukee’s past Socialist mayors highlights how proposals by current Democratic Socialists are much more radical, even if they’re rhetorically similar.

The average GPA for undergraduate students at Wisconsin’s flagship university increased to 3.48 in the recently completed fall semester — up from 3.28 just 10 years ago.

All 13 four-year University of Wisconsin System schools impose an ethnic studies requirement in order to graduate.