Every political system is, fundamentally, a contract between governors and governed. The terms of that contract are not fixed by ideology or culture. They are set by an underlying structure of power, ...

Knowing the state of a system is essential for many analysis and debug tasks, but it’s becoming more difficult in heterogeneous systems that are crammed with an increasing array of features. There is ...

Wisconsin did rank 42nd for funding its public, four-year universities, according to a national report. An Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo shows Republicans have approved the lowest percentage of state ...

SPRINGFIELD — As a nurse in her 30s, Kristen Perez cringes at the prospect of working until she’s almost 70. But because of changes made to the state’s massively underfunded pension system 13 years ...

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