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“Jimmy Carter may never be rated a great president,” wrote Charles O. Jones, a University of Wisconsin political scientist, in his chronicle of the Carter presidency. “Yet it will be difficult in the long run to sustain censure of a president motivated to do what is right.”

“It’s kind of a political joke amongst pundits that it all comes down to Waukesha County, Wisconsin,” Mike Wagner, a professor who focuses on political communication and public opinion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, previously told the Washington Examiner. “There is some truth to that — the turnout is really important for Republicans there. It’s really a place that they need.”

“Because both major parties are expecting tight results in the battleground states that will decide the presidency, there has been more than the usual amount of interest [in] how minor party and independent candidates might affect the results,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Elections Research Center Director Barry Burden told the Washington Examiner. “Republicans have been assisting Kennedy in his efforts to get off the ballot assuming that his departure provides more votes for Trump. Republican allies have also been assisting progressive Cornel West with ballot access under the assumption that he would take votes from Harris.”

Professor Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Centre of Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, said such an approach was “ironic” given Trump openly called on Russia to hack Mrs Clinton’s emails in 2016.

“Russia, if you’re listening… I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press,” Trump said at the time.

Prof Culver said the restraint from the press in 2024 shows lessons have been learned from the “almost breathless coverage” of leaked emails in 2016.

Yi Fuxian, an expert on China’s demographics at the University of Wisconsin, says the country faces three major obstacles to reversing its shrinking population: low fertility desire, high child-raising costs and a climbing infertility rate.

Of these, “the sole challenge Beijing has any capacity to impact is the affordability issue,” Yi said.

At the national Monarch Larva Monitoring Project, which tracks the number of eggs the butterflies are laying, the counts are down, both in the Prairie State and the larger region, according to the project’s founder and coordinator Karen Oberhauser.

“The numbers are low throughout the Upper Midwest,” she said.

In 2003, as Paris sweltered through a heat wave that would go on to kill an estimated 15,000 people across France, one oasis of cooler air remained off limits: the city’s roughly 400 public parks. They were temporarily closed due to the danger of falling tree limbs.

“That basically deprived people of the one small sliver of green space that they might have had in order to find a slightly cooler atmosphere,” says Richard C. Keller a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003.

“People today don’t understand how young and vibrant and athletic and charismatic Jesse Jackson was on the podium,” said Stephen Lucas, professor emeritus of rhetoric, politics and culture at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and co-author of “Words of a Century: The Top 100 American Speeches, 1900-1999.”

Wisconsin has remained a closely divided state that gets an outsized share of attention from the national political parties, evenan outsized share of attention from the national political parties, even as other once-purple states have tipped more reliably in one direction — Colorado toward the Democrats and Ohio toward Republicans, for example.

“I don’t think there’s been another state that has stayed at that kind of knife-edge point for so long,” said Barry Burden, a political science knife-edge point for so long,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

As University of Wisconsin at Madison political scientist Barry Burden noted on Thursday, debate viewership has been trending up since the 1990s, though that may be in part because of more investment in partisan identities. That is, people may tune in not to learn more about the candidates but, instead, to root on their team’s representative.

“Everybody expected a local contamination issue,” said David Gay, coordinator of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author of the new study. “But I think what most people don’t understand about this fire is how big it was and how wide-ranging the implications are.”

“Humans are definitely still evolving,” agrees John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

But “intelligence” itself is a concept that’s hard to define or quantify. “General intelligence” is even trickier, says Gary Lupyan, a cognitive neuroscientist and psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In his view, AI researchers are often “overconfident” when they talk about intelligence and how to measure it in machines.

“Many politicians, law enforcement personnel and ordinary citizens are nonetheless incensed because this person should not have been in the country and thus capable of committing a crime,” said Michael Light, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has studied the issue. “This view that the person’s undocumented status is an aggravating factor is also likely a reason why these crimes generate such strong responses.”