When I learned that billionaire Jeff Bezos was planning to shoot Captain Kirk into space, I thought it was one of the dumbest publicity stunts of the year. William Shatner, the star of the original Star Trek television series, is…
MADISON, Wis. -- This is an actual quote from the man Wisconsin has hired to investigate claims of fraud in the last election: “Most people, myself included, do not have a comprehensive understanding, or even any understanding, of how elections…
One of the nicest things about the Madison Symphony Orchestra is that it is pretty easy to feel among friends when one attends a concert.
In case you were wondering what your state legislators have been up to, this week they're considering telling schools they can't teach students about racism. It's part of a nationwide Republican effort to link schools to something called “Critical Race…
MADISON, Wis. -- It's pretty much official that the American withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years was “botched.” Virtually every newspaper account, television account, and pundit account use “botched” as a prefix for the withdrawal. To be honest, the scenes…
This is what I read from Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on the front page of this morning’s paper: “It was an honor to be invited to travel by private plane with President Trump and top staff to attend his rally in Alabama.”
The easy answer is “no.” I think the more accurate answer is that the assessment depends on what we mean by “worth.”
The House of Representatives has begun its hearings on the Jan. 6 insurrection at the nation’s Capitol and Republicans in Congress have found their villain: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
It's becoming official in business group circles: Wisconsin can't find enough workers and the reason is we're too generous to the unemployed.
Stephen Colbert is usually one of the funniest men on television but, this week, he is delivering his monologue from his New Jersey home and it pretty much falls flat.
Tennessee Williams' 1978 play, "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur," is a nice work of drama highlighting the unlikely dreams of Depression-era women and is well worth a trip to American Players Theatre to enjoy.
Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play, "A Doll's House," seems a century before its time, raising issues of a woman's place in society and in the family decades before they became known issues in western society.
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The nation seems to be going through another bizarre argument about whether President Donald Trump is a racist.
It takes the cynical insight of George Bernard Shaw to cut Napoleon Bonaparte down to size and it no doubt takes a culture like our own to appreciate the effort.
President Trump's incessant tweets have the tendency to put those of us who are sick of him in a moral bind.
The nation's Roman Catholic bishops have launched yet another program to prove they are sincere about ending the church's sex abuse crisis.
The Madison Symphony Orchestra's final concert of the season promised to be spectacular and it more than delivered.
It is easy to look at all the challenges in our nation and in the world and become discouraged.
Until a couple of days ago, the big issue in health insurance coverage was the proposal from several Democratic presidential candidates that the nation extend its Medicare program to cover anyone who needs insurance.
When the history of the Trump presidency is one day written, I suspect the president's most unfortunate legacy will be the demise of the conservative voice in American politics.
Each year the Madison Symphony Orchestra brings in a variety of world-class musicians to highlight the organization's monthly subscription concerts.
