Culture/Politics
Republican candidates join nationwide scrutiny of tenure
Badger Institute has argued for more leeway to lay off professors Republican candidates for governor are joining politicians across the country who are increasingly skeptical of tenure guarantees for professors. U.S. Rep. Tom…
UW students turning away from gender and ethnic studies degrees
Students want ROI and jobs About half as many students in the Universities of Wisconsin system are getting bachelor’s degrees in ethnic and gender studies as did at their peak in 2013. Bachelor’s degrees focusing on gender…
Rights of nature and the wrongs inflicted on Wisconsinites
If your lightbulbs are connected to the power plant that’s connected to the lake, you’ll pay Went over to Devil’s Lake last weekend to look at leaves, did you? Good choice. Lovely place. Did you get the lake’s permission? No,…
As hunger looms, Democrats in ‘non-winnable’ situation
Impending loss of FoodShare benefits eclipses unrelated big changes coming Monday The paradox of a political party wholly invested in growing the social welfare state but refusing to open the government to feed impoverished…
Fight over Obamacare is fight worth having
Wisconsin taxpayers ought to be rooting hard for conservatives to hold the line during this current federal government shutdown and let the pandemic-era super-subsidies for the Affordable Care Act run out at the end of the…
Post-Kirk assassination, Wisconsin needs to teach difference between words and bullets, says prof
Silence after attack on the soul of universities puts too much at risk If we’re to go on having universities that are worth the name, Wisconsin needs to start teaching the difference between words and bullets, says a…
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