Opinion

Almanac for March 24, 2026

Today is Tuesday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2026. There are 282 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil. Also on this date: In 1882, German scientist Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis. In 1921, the Women's Olympiad, the first international women's sporting event, began in Monte Carlo, Monaco. In 1980, Catholic Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador, an ...

Donald Trump's war psychology

Two weeks after the start of the Iran War, the picture is coming into focus. Why would a president who promised countless times not to start new wars have leapt into this conflict? As always in the age of Donald Trump, it's necessary to separate the president's motives and mindset from the old ...

Supreme Court sounds skeptical of late-arriving ballots, a Trump target

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court 's conservative majority on Monday sounded skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a persistent target of President Donald Trump. A ruling, likely to come by late June, that bars counting ballots arriving after ...

Free speech for me but not for thee

Last week, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission threatened to rescind the broadcast licenses of media entities that do not relate events in Iran or Ukraine as the Trump administration would like them to be related. He also attacked The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times ...

Celebrate National Ag Day by buying local products

National Ag Day is coming up Tuesday, with this year’s theme being “Together We Grow.” In advance of this national day of recognition, I encourage all Wisconsinites to take time to thank their local producers for the hard work they do every single day to feed, clothe and power the State of Wisconsin and beyond. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has declared 2026 the Year of the Neighbor, which is a theme the agriculture industry knows well. Without the collective work of producers across the state, Wisconsin’s $116.3 billion agriculture industry wouldn’t be the internationally ...

Editorial cartoon for March 23, 2026