So why has Wisconsin’s capital city enforced more lenient rules surrounding marijuana, but not the rest of the state? Why does the state continue to enforce harsh, outdated laws that no longer serve our contemporary times?
In response to a rapid increase of COVID-19 cases, Public Health Madison & Dane County released Emergency Order #10, completely prohibiting all indoor gatherings and limiting outdoor gatherings to 10 people.
With this decision to deny telecommuting students their hard-earned wages, international students and other students telecommuting to work are locked out of the many ways they can support themselves financially, as they partake in their studies online and attempt to work from home in the midst of a global pandemic.
The decision to bring back college football was made too fast. Not enough safety protocols were established and the health of students at these campuses was put at risk.
If we were to extract all offensive aspects of culture in an attempt to create a national “safe space,” no one's beliefs would ever be challenged and we as a society would become stagnant.
A new president has, for better or worse, been elected by the people of the United States, but as a nation we are unable, much like the president himself, to concede our partisanship and embrace a national pride and respect for our own countrymen.
Kamala Harris made history on Nov. 7, shattering the glass ceiling and becoming the first woman vice-president-elect in history. She is the first woman and first woman of color to hold this office — a major milestone that exposes our nation’s damaging history of racial injustice and patriarchy.
By growing the quantity and quality of the housing stock in Madison, you open up new funding to promote affordable housing initiatives.
If the task force recommendations are implemented, we might be able to attract the caliber of representative we deserve by getting access to candidates who are currently unwilling to serve because of the low compensation.
Trump has been trying to delegitimize ballots counted after election day, even though history reveals that states have always remained counting after election night.
News outlets’ shifts in coverage practices, however, have a critical misunderstanding — political bias is not the problem.
Democracy does not look like this — voting should be easy.
It doesn't matter who you support, but it does matter that you take an active and educated role in society.
America must regain its place on the world stage because we are the only country capable of leading the new world order.
We need someone to step up to the plate, to follow science and restore trust in our government and each other. We need Joe Biden.
To those not convinced that their vote carries enough weight, or to those that are not compelled to act this election day, we urge you: Vote for those who cannot — their lives, that are equally as intrinsic and dignified as your own, deserve nothing less.
Today, the reversal of Obergefell is feeling more and more like a real possibility, and it’s scary to contemplate a world where I and my community, instead of seeing continued progress, are even further marginalized by the government and once more deprived of our freedom to marry the people we love.
People with uteruses have been scared for the protection of their reproductive rights for countless years. Unfortunately, those same people are waiting for the outcome of a terrifyingly hostile overturn of Roe Vs. Wade that has been proposed by national Republican leaders.
It isn’t just the national economy and job market that are suffering from the fossil fuel industry and the effects of climate change. Each community in Wisconsin is facing its own unique struggles.
From our systems of policing and criminal justice to the two-party system at large, the structures that govern our lives at the local and national level must be re-evaluated, rebuilt and reorganized.
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