University campuses nationwide have long been the focus of political debates and battles in the form of protests and demonstrations. In recent…
The protesters taking over college campuses are not antisemitic, so we’re told, but they want to destroy the only Jewish state. They just want…
The Jimmy Carter years were marked by high interest rates, rampant unemployment, soaring inflation and weak economic growth. President Joe Bid…
Amending the Constitution has become about as rare as Haley’s comet. That wouldn’t be a problem if the checks, balances and principles set for…
Students are taught in civics class that, under the American justice system, a defendant may be convicted of a crime only if a jury finds him …
American history is replete with paradigm-shifting, landscape-altering, game-changing moments. Brown v. Board of Education is one of them.
The latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office repeat a warning made many times before: The trajectory of US government borrowing…
America’s approach to health care is an outlier among the world’s rich countries, and not in a good way. Extraordinarily complex and hideously…
Marijuana legalization is killing a lot of people. Not slowly — though some studies suggest that it may be doing that, too — but quickly, in c…
By most standard economic measures, President Joe Biden has presided over a strong economy. In terms of growth, job creation, wage gains and e…
For more than two years, Vladimir Putin’s bluster, blame and threats of escalation have been driven by a singular goal: deterring and discoura…
The United States has recently recorded 58 cases of measles in 17 states, including Virginia. That should be a wakeup call for parents and hea…
A few months ago, the idea that in vitro fertilization — the medical process of fertilizing eggs in a lab setting and selecting embryos to be …
Anyone who thinks policy doesn’t matter should consider that red states are outperforming blue states economically.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid is known by high school seniors, college students and their parents, as well as everyone else by …
“What are you doing, Alabama?” Neil Young sang. The question must be asked again and at the top of the nation’s lungs, as abortion fundamental…
Four years since the COVID pandemic began, many US school districts are hurtling toward a fiscal crisis.
He had only been in the U.S. House for 17 months, but Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher knew how he would fix the grandstanding, gridlock …
Saturday marks the two-year anniversary of Russian despot Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, after Moscow’s military forces took control of…
Money sent out in haste most often goes to waste. That’s an apt assessment of many government programs, and it certainly applies to funding me…
Trending Now
-
'She was friends with the people that most ignored.' Janesville woman's family remembers her love for music, pizza
-
UW-Whitewater at Rock County Dean Tricia Clasen named Woman of Distinction
-
Janesville Craig pit orchestra brings teacher, student musicians together
-
Blackhawk Technical College unleashes its â€talons’ with new mascot
-
Janesville teachers, staff dress in black to protest insurance hikes
If you have an event you'd like to list in our calendar, submit it now!
And with a tie House vote of 215-215 on the phony articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, House Spe…
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken started the new year with a sensible, and productive, visit to Africa. In late January, he traveled to Cabo…
Health care in Wisconsin is suffering from a serious case of “long COVID.” Not so much the disease itself, although it’s on the rise again, bu…
Until this weekend, the roughly 45,000 U.S. troops based in the Middle East were able to insulate themselves from the chaos of the region.
In this country, the rights you get as a worker — like overtime pay, a safe workplace and the right to organize into a union — depend on a see…
Donald Trump’s blowout win in Iowa last Monday night was a wake-up call for Democrats, but not for the reason they think.
As expected, Donald Trump earned an easy victory in the Iowa Republican caucus on Monday, breaking records in the process. The result moves hi…
In recent weeks, Congress has stripped a senator of his committee chairmanship pending a bribery investigation, expelled a House member for eg…
Nearly two years ago, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine unified European nations, reinvigorated the trans-Atlantic alliance and forged a sp…
Once again, the U.S. Supreme Court finds itself at the center of a national case involving access to abortion, this time around the drug mifep…
The White House continues to send mixed signals on America’s support for Israel. That emboldens Hamas and needs to stop.
We have no qualms with much of the United Nations resolution expressing “grave concern over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaz…
If you have tuned out the many crazy things that Donald Trump has said since he left the White House, it’s time to start paying attention.
In 2015, the world’s governments declared a collective ambition: to limit the rise in global temperatures to just 1.5 degrees Celsius. Since t…
We’ve seen contagions induced by social media before. But the sudden popularity of TikTok videos in which confused young people muse on the me…
More than 90% of prescriptions in the U.S. are filled with generic drugs. These cheaper alternatives to branded medications have expanded acce…
In the name of national security, former South Carolina governor and current Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley wants to use govern…
If these were normal times, Ukraine would be preparing to hold presidential elections in March. But with war raging and parts of the country u…
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that aims to undo a federal prohibition on people with domestic violence restraini…
As a general, Dwight D. Eisenhower led Allied troops to victory over Adolf Hitler’s racist and genocidal regime.
Hours after Republicans ended their three-week impasse last Wednesday and came together to elect a new speaker of the House, the lower chamber…
It’s a rare issue that can bring 41 states together for a bipartisan fight. This week, state attorneys general across the political spectrum j…
Wisconsin’s gun deer season is rapidly approaching. It’s not the only time you’ll see hunting in the state, but it’s by far the biggest one fo…
Excessive use of smartphones and social media is linked to rising rates of teenage depression and self-harm, while also damaging students’ aca…
Given the magnitude of the amount allocated, it’s unlikely we’ll ever truly know the extent to which con artists, fraudsters and elected offic…
We bet the farm — in a way.
As House Republicans fiddle while the world burns, some grown-ups in the Senate have thankfully moved to fill the leadership void.
The stories and video are chilling and horrific. Armed men roaming through an Israeli music festival calculatedly shooting civilians at point-…
Saturday’s Hamas terror onslaught from their stronghold in Gaza into Israel, murdering hundreds, was a sneak attack, just like the sneak attac…
In January, after 14 failed roll call votes — during each of which he got fewer votes than Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — Republican Kevin …
The deal adopts a common sense approach that doesn’t try to put this genie back in the bottle — which won’t work — while limiting its potentia…
The Inflation Reduction Act, passed last year, gave Medicare the authority to negotiate drug prices for the first time. The government will st…
More than three years since COVID-19 reached these shores, widespread misinformation continues to inhibit reasonable measures intended to keep…
At the end of this month, states are expected to run through the last of $24 billion in additional federal funding for child care, implemented…
All around the world, in preparation for the High Holy Days, Jews are doing the inner spiritual work right now of cheshbon hanefesh, or accoun…
Congress directed billions of dollars to the nation’s public schools to address pandemic-era learning loss. So far, there’s no evidence that t…
When the federal government falters, the nation’s most vulnerable residents feel the effects hardest and fastest. That will be the case if Con…
Social scientists believe they know why America has become so divided along political lines.
In much the way that telehealth medicine has brought medical resources to people who won’t or can’t travel to a doctor’s office, veterinary te…
It was perfectly legal for the racist killer of three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday to buy and pos…
Back when banking was heavily regulated, the “three-six-three” rule prevailed. Bankers would pay 3% interest on depositors’ accounts, charge a…
If you or someone you know now has COVID (often again), you’re not alone. Infections are ticking back up, with the 7-day average of confirmed …
Donald Trump wasn’t on the stage — the cowardly tyrant had taped a Tucker Carlson interview in which he branded the American left “savage anim…
At the Waupun Correctional Institution, a maximum security Wisconsin penitentiary located about three hours northwest of Chicago, some 1,000 p…
California’s electric vehicle push has increased the demand for natural gas. The global warming alarmists never mentioned that.
The second straight year of 14% increases in home values statewide, and mortgage interest rates near 7%, continued to illustrate the squeeze f…
It was the sort of conduct one usually associates with totalitarian governments: Law enforcement officers swarm a newspaper office and confisc…
Efforts to give the nation’s growing fleet of electric vehicles a second job as backup power sources got a significant boost last week.
As inflation cooled over the past year, President Joe Biden ran atop the podium to claim his medal. Turns out the race wasn’t over.
A criminal record, even a low-level drug possession charge, can hamper people’s ability to land a job, secure an apartment or obtain public ai…
Donald Trump’s alleged spiriting away of classified documents to Mar-a-Lago was not a threat to democracy.
America’s prosperity depends on attracting foreign talent. Yet due to a dysfunctional immigration system, millions of workers face insurmounta…
Grocery shouldn’t be a strategic pillar
There’s a major disconnect between what renewable energy backers promised and the current cost of electricity.
The human body can barely cope with weather this hot. In Phoenix, where the asphalt can hit 180F (82C), emergency-room doctors are zipping hea…
Even as the state and federal governments are making slow, belated progress dealing with the industrial chemicals called PFAS in our drinking …
Healthy skepticism of authority is a very good thing — as power should never go unchecked in a democracy. But corrosive distrust of government…
One of the most demoralizing things about the world’s response to the climate crisis is the fossil fuel industry’s continued success in blocki…
While President Joe Biden’s new student loan relief program for 804,000 borrowers won’t assist anywhere near the 26 million Americans he had b…
After months of teetering on the edge, it seems inflation is declining steadily, to the point where the specter of mega-price jumps erasing sa…