2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (693+ words) When the history of this benighted era is written, people will wonder about the madman president. They will ask what we did to try to resist his rampages against our federal government. For Donald J. Trump, "mad" can be taken in…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (214+ words) The Capital Times Letters to the Editor Dear Editor: I take severe exception to the letter headlined "Proposal to ban discrimination harms marginalized people," which I believe would be more accurately entitled "Let's do racism the right way." The letter…...

1+ mon, 16+ hour ago  (587+ words) In this image provided by NASA, The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on Monday as they flew around the Moon. April 7: Put it down as the most schizophrenic day in United States history. While the nation…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (532+ words) We live in a hyphenated reality bound by contradictions, paradoxes, hypocrisy and the little conveniences with which we fill the days. After Paul Fanlund offered me the job as opinion editor for The Capital Times, I shared the news with…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (702+ words) Scene: the Midwest in midcentury. The Madison, Wisconsin, neighborhood lived through the 1930s and 1940s, depression, wartime and polio. President Franklin Roosevelt's radio fireside chats built morale. My father's mother, Marie, a widowed nurse with four children, never missed Eleanor Roosevelt's column,…...