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One of the benefits of having 50 states, our so-called laboratories of democracy, is that we can examine different states’ policies and learn from them.

BY MIKE NICHOLS | Dec. 15, 2014 Many years ago, after taking a job as a young reporter at the old…

In 2012, Democratic candidates successfully sold the narrative that Republicans were waging a war against American women. Consequently, exit polls found a significant gender gap.

City is making progress on educational attainment, but not nearly enough.

Wisconsinites need to get used to the idea of electronic tolls on our freeways. It’s a free-market solution to an overwhelming problem: lack of cash to pay for modestly modern highways.

The headline in late October was a shocker: “Wisconsin business taxes rank 43rd”  — seventh worst in the country.

I’m not wealthy, but I’m working on it.

By now, there’s enough mythology surrounding the patterns and trends exhibited by the millennial generation to overwhelm any researcher.

Raising the minimum wage would boost the wages of some workers, but it also would result in fewer jobs.

It’s amazing, the things we get worked up about — and the things we don’t.

Economists from Suffolk University’s Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy have determined through economic modeling that Wisconsin would benefit long-term from further tax cuts. Yet, they’ve found, Wisconsin doesn’t just suffer from high taxes. It suffers from the wrong tax mix.

Can we please stop using the word “outsourcing”?

Male students are so outnumbered on our nation’s campuses that it’s worth considering who really controls the dynamics of day-to-day life.

To end gun violence in our inner cities, we need to stop focusing on the guns. Guns are only a symptom of a larger and more insidious disease.

Who’s really listening to all the talk about jobs in Wisconsin?

Recently I celebrated Father’s Day with my wife and two small children. A day specifically to celebrate what we bring to the table as men and fathers is a wonderful gift.

As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently reported, on June 24 the U.S. Department of Education announced the creation of a new accountability framework for special needs students.

Milwaukee and some of its unheralded community groups and violence-fighting programs hold “the key to changing this country,” according to Robert Woodson Sr., one of America’s most influential and outspoken voices on welfare myths and finding new ways to combat poverty.  

Wisconsin news media are focused on the “sluggish” statewide, private-sector job growth numbers that are a little more than half…

Excerpts of a speech by Woodson Center President and founder Robert L. Woodson Sr. at the Wisconsin Center.