Public subsidies turn journalists into sycophants, undermine true scrutiny of government excess, distort the market for news and entertainment, create unfair competition for privately funded media, and are a waste of tax dollars.

With fewer passengers and mostly empty seats, it’s time to shut down the Hop, Milwaukee’s $128 million streetcar.

Spent uranium isn’t the plant owners’ responsibility because Uncle Sam bigfooted his way into the matter in 1982, then accomplished nothing.

Lawmakers are seeking support for legislation that would prohibit Wisconsin’s 700,000 FoodShare recipients from buying candy and soda with program benefits.

Wisconsin’s governor talks of new 9.8% top tax rate — one that would wallop businesses that don’t flee.

Badger Institute supports 2025 AB 1, because no matter how lousy our kids’ and schools’ test scores are, it’s both counterproductive and plain wrong to pretend otherwise.

The Trump Administration’s focus on federal grants is part of a fundamental dispute over whether Americans should adhere to the Tenth Amendment.

In 2023, the drug most often identified in samples sent by law enforcement to the State Crime Lab was meth, which accounted for 1,378 of the 4,805 samples tested — more than cocaine or heroin or fentanyl or even THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.

Wisconsin’s biggest metropolis enjoys the third-highest concentration of manufacturing jobs in the country. The EPA’s redesignation, dropped with little warning in early December, could kill that.

What do Wisconsinites want in 2025? Just the chance to buy a modest house and heat it affordably. A safe place away from gunshots and a job that pays the bills. And a really good school where kids feel safe and hopeful.

In the 12 years leading up to Act 10, school levies across Wisconsin rose 72%, compared to 31% in the dozen years after that up to and including 2024.

Wisconsin ought to show mercy to families struggling with childcare costs by re-examining which cost-escalating regulations actually matter for kids.

When Wisconsin’s high school graduates find out the rest of life hasn’t lowered the bar for “proficiency,” when they find out they’ve been misled, it will be a cruel slap of reality.

Small nuclear modular reactors are a big deal for Wisconsin, given our developing AI economy and Gov. Evers’ Clean Energy Plan.