Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan is a verbal machine gun. Silence is the only thing he attacks with more ferocity than…

Here at WPRI, we seem to be writing about Paul Ryan a lot. People are probably starting to wonder if our acronym…

Recently, a liberal friend suggested that I read President Obama’s “nuanced and thoughtful defense of government” at the University of…

Remember Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war stalker of President George W. Bush? The poor lady’s 15 minutes of fame expired a…

A researcher finds mixed but encouraging results By Patrick Wolf On a rainy May morning in 2008, my research team…

Business, it is said, clamors to zip by train between Milwaukee and Madison. Business, we’re told, needs high-speed rail and…

Using bitingly personal language, the seven justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court spent much of the current term arguing over,…

Spring backward April, as T.S. Eliot reminded us, is the cruelest month, and this year it was especially cruel to…

In an online ad, Republican congressional candidate Dan Kapanke wants you to know he’s a real guy. “Having been born…

While it makes sense that Paul Ryan would be the conservative pin-up guy in 2010, the story was much different…

It is just minutes before the bell rings to end Tom Schalmo’s eighth-grade reading class at Milwaukee’s Burbank Elementary School,…

Hard choices For a rising political star, Paul Ryan remains a remarkably lonely political figure. For years, under both Democrats…

Marquette takes a bigger role in Milwaukee’s policy debates By Sunny Schubert Just north of the new Marquette Interchange-the busiest…

The economy dominates every political and policy conversation these days. Some people know what they’re talking about, most do not.…

By Christian Schneider The ubiquitous television commercial plays nonstop, making it the aural wallpaper of our lives: Bob Dylan’s “Forever…

By Mike Nichols Peggy Sullivan was given a government-issued debit card to buy groceries in Wisconsin at the same time…

CHARLES J. SYKES Even for a normally frigid region like ours, this was still the season of our discontent. Abetted…

It was an off-the-record conversation early last summer with a major figure in education politics in Wisconsin. I suggested that…

Lake Wobegon has nothing on the UW-Madison School of Education. All of the children in Garrison Keillor’s fictional Minnesota town…

The foibles of progressive schooling prompt a search for a better alternative By Warren Kozak Here’s how my formal education…