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- Florida could teach Wisconsin how to demand a more open-minded academia
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Editor’s Note Growing our reach and influenceby Mike Nichols The new capitalism Wisconsin entrepreneurs build communities, careers.By Remso Martinez Badger…
Editor’s Note The infantilization of AmericaBy Mike Nichols A welfare spasm to dwarf the Great Society Progressives ignore past failures,…
Editor’s Note What, exactly, have our governments just done for us?By Mike Nichols Medicaid on Red Alert As stimulus rules…
Editor’s Note In a truly horrible year, perhaps there have been planted the seeds of miraclesBy Mike Nichols Police use…
Editor’s Note Balancing risks with freedomBy Mike Nichols Read More… Harmful history of government set-asides Preferential contracts undermine the truly…
Editor’s Note Think politicians and bureaucrats are looking out for you? Think again.By Mike Nichols Read More… Badger Briefing: Here’s…
Editor’s Note In a free society, it’s better when we the people — not the government — make the decisions.By…
Editor’s Note The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s journalism center and Gender and Women’s Studies major raise some questions — and eyebrows.By…
Editor’s Note Digging into the decline of marriage, fire department staffing, overused TIFs and driverless transit.By Mike Nichols Read More……
Editor’s Note WPRI has transformed itself into the Badger Institute — a name that reaches back to the industrious miners…
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Wisconsin could lead the way again Let us take a moment to celebrate our unique political culture here in Wisconsin.…
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Rightward, ho! In 2011, it was Act 10.In 2015, right-to-work. In our cover story, WPRI President Mike Nichols explains the…
Scott Walker is back in town Postmortems — complete with recriminations and finger-pointing — will continue to be written about…
The American Dream The left’s response to Paul Ryan’s attempt to change the national dialogue about poverty was, perhaps, predictable.…
Here we are again In a few weeks, Wisconsin voters will again get to decide whether to continue the conservative…
Heartland conservatism If there were any winners in the government shutdown, it may have been GOP governors, including Wisconsin’s Scott…
The singular leadership of George Lightbourn The term “public servant” has been used too generically to retain much of its…
Smart can win In the wake of November’s election, national Republicans conducted an autopsylike review of their failures. As Wisconsin’s…

