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Milwaukee Independent reaches 80 Gridiron Awards after earning 9 more with 2 for Korean diaspora series
The Milwaukee Press Club, the oldest active press club in America and known for honoring...
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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A War on Barbie: Why American women and children are the target of Trump’s tariffs and toxic ideology
Donald Trump’s outlandish and disruptive trade war has become both an economic weapon and a...
Republican revival of failed Reaganomics pushes Milwaukee seniors toward hunger and despair again
The last time the American public watched their elderly parents eat dog food to survive, Ronald...
The man who ruined Christmas: How Trump’s tariffs will gut an American tradition he promised to “save”
Trump’s re-election in 2024 was accompanied by a predictable resurgence in economic...
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Habeas corpus: The thousand-year-old legal principle for defending rights that Trump’s regime wants to end
By Andrea Seielstad, Professor of Law, University of Dayton In some parts of the world, a person...
Trump pone en duda su creencia en el derecho fundamental al debido proceso mientras busca “gobernar el mundo”
En una entrevista transmitida el 4 de mayo en Meet the Press de NBC News, la periodista Kristen...
Electoral Crimes: How Republicans stole their way into the White House for more than half a century
Trump is an illegitimate president, but he’s not the first. The last Republican who was elected...
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.
