• What 2020 hopefuls can learn from ghosts of Septembers past

    What 2020 hopefuls can learn from ghosts of Septembers past

    Aug 28, 2019 08:16 PM EST

    We are about to cross into a new zone in presidential politicking, moving from “it’s too early” to “it all matters” in the Democratic nomination fight. This threshold has a name: September. The PBS NewsHour looked at the past six presidential races and found some patterns in the Septembers ...

  • WATCH: Ryan thinks Biden would have better chance against Trump than other 2020 Democrats

    WATCH: Ryan thinks Biden would have better chance against Trump than other 2020 Democrats

    Jun 24, 2019 09:35 PM EST

    ... voters away from President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. "I think we can beat [Warren and Sanders] in our kinds of states," Ryan told PBS NewsHour managing editor and anchor Judy Woodruff in an interview at the 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival. Instead, the former Republican congressman from Wisconsin said ...

  • Why children struggling with mental health say stigma can be deadly

    Why children struggling with mental health say stigma can be deadly

    Jun 06, 2019 10:20 PM EST

    A new documentary produced by our colleagues at Milwaukee PBS in collaboration with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel follows four young people from Wisconsin who are navigating mental health challenges. They’ve endured assault, bullying, incarceration and discrimination, and in some cases considered suicide. Yet through it all, these children in ...

  • Across the country, 2020 Democrats appeal to working-class voters

    Across the country, 2020 Democrats appeal to working-class voters

    Apr 29, 2019 10:45 PM EST

    ... working families. Lisa Desjardins: Biden is zeroing in on a key set of 2020 battlegrounds, seeking to rebuild the so-called blue wall, states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, home to many white working-class voters. Biden and President Obama won those three states both in 2008 and 2012. But ...

  • Lethal plans: When seniors turn to suicide in long-term care

    Lethal plans: When seniors turn to suicide in long-term care

    Apr 10, 2019 10:26 PM EST

    When Larry Anders moved into the Bay at Burlington nursing home in late 2017, he wasn’t supposed to be there long. At 77, the stoic Wisconsin machinist had just endured the death of his wife of 51 years and a grim new diagnosis: throat cancer, stage 4. His son ...

  • Durbin set to reintroduce his anti-domestic terrorism bill. Here's how it would work

    Durbin set to reintroduce his anti-domestic terrorism bill. Here's how it would work

    Mar 27, 2019 07:05 PM EST

    ... questions about the administration’s response to domestic terrorism writ large, as well as the still-unscheduled joint meeting, DHS spokesman Tyler Houlton told the PBS NewsHour in an email, “The Department of Homeland Security is committed to combating all forms of violent extremism, especially movements that espouse racial supremacy ...

  • A year after Parkland, support sinks for stricter laws on gun sales, poll says

    A year after Parkland, support sinks for stricter laws on gun sales, poll says

    Feb 14, 2019 10:00 AM EST

    ... much change around him. “It feels like the same thing over again,” said Lopez, who attends Legacy Early College in Greenville, and talked to the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs. But that doesn’t mean the fight launched by students after Parkland is over. At the time of the shooting ...

  • WATCH: Stacey Abrams delivers Democratic response to State of the Union

    WATCH: Stacey Abrams delivers Democratic response to State of the Union

    Feb 06, 2019 12:57 AM EST

    ... attention away from Abrams and her historic speech. Sanders struggled with black voters in his 2016 primary fight against Clinton. The Working Families Party tapped Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who, like Abrams, is black, to speak after her official response. Schumer said Tuesday that he has no problem with ...

  • Midwest sees all-time low temperatures due to polar vortex

    Midwest sees all-time low temperatures due to polar vortex

    Jan 31, 2019 11:55 PM EST

    ... out of the woods yet. Amna Nawaz: But most vulnerable to the long stretch of cold, thousands of homeless people across the region. In Madison, Wisconsin, First United Methodist Church has been running an emergency shelter since Monday. Karen Andro is in charge. Karen Andro: In this kind of crisis ...

  • Democrats campaigned to raise teacher pay. For now, more are prepared to strike

    Democrats campaigned to raise teacher pay. For now, more are prepared to strike

    Jan 25, 2019 10:06 PM EST

    ... Year, was elected to Congress by the state of Connecticut. The party leaned on the issue in high-profile governors’ races as well, including in Wisconsin, where the state’s superintendent of public instruction, Democrat Tony Evers, unseated the incumbent Republican Scott Walker. Yet it’s unclear how much attention ...