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May 25, 2020: Remembering when George Floyd’s murder ignited Milwaukee and the nation five years ago
The cellphone footage from Minneapolis, showing a police officer’s knee pressed into George...
Aly Miller: Playfully navigating the relationship between place and identity with illustrative maps
In parallel with the uniqueness of an individual’s identity are the maps each of us formulates of...
Microsoft’s purchase of 240 acres in Kenosha is expected to launch a new era of tech-driven growth
The state of Wisconsin and city of Kenosha announced on January 27 that Microsoft had purchased...
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Weaponized rhetoric: How “redistribution of wealth” became a racist attack line during Reconstruction
In the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War, as the South lay shattered and newly emancipated Black...
Freedom is not the right to hate: Why MAGA’s claim of religious liberty is a shield for cruelty
In the America that Donald Trump built, and the Supreme Court has blessed, religious belief is no...
The anatomy of a lie: Ways the public can predict and defend against Trump’s disinformation tactics
Imagine a man with a bullhorn standing in front of a school, shouting that giant spiders are...
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Why Japanese anime draws from religious traditions to explore the struggle between duty and desire
By Ronald S. Green, Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies,...
When all seemed lost: How the story of Thomas Paine’s “The American Crisis” revived national hope
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in...
Using the Tea Party’s playbook: How Democrats can take control to advance real progressive change
Progressives should not just be fighting the GOP, we should be learning from them. No, we should...
The Pandemic We Wasted: How we could have transcended our self-erected barriers of politics
What do you remember about the first days of the pandemic? I remember going to three grocery...
Being heartbroken and scared: Why a determined but peaceful resistance to Trump must start now
I will not try to hide it. I am heartbroken. Heartbroken and scared, to tell you the truth. I am...
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Thousands rally in Milwaukee as part of nationwide “Hands Off!” demonstrations against Trump and Musk
Crowds of people angry about the way Donald Trump and South African oligarch Elon Musk are running the country rallied in Milwaukee and scores of American cities on April 5 in the biggest day of demonstrations yet by an opposition movement trying to regain its momentum after the shock of the Republican’s brutal first weeks in office.
