Conservative Activism: Clarence Thomas is poised push Supreme Court to roll back more landmark rulings
By Neil Roberts, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto With the opening of the U.S. Supreme Court’s new session on October 3, Clarence Thomas is arguably the most powerful justice on the nation’s highest court. In 1991, after Thomas became an associate...
Overgeneralized and under-recognized: How Census data hides racial diversity of Hispanics in America
By Ramona L. Pérez, Professor of Anthropology, San Diego State University As I opened a recent email from my local grocery store chain advertising Hispanic Heritage Month, it runs from September 15 to October 15 each year, I was surprised to see it highlighting...
Milwaukee Film hosts the return of Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival at the Oriental Theatre for seventh year
Milwaukee Film and the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition (MMWC) will continue their partnership to produce the seventh annual Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival (MMFF), one of the country’s leading Muslim film festivals. The event, which takes place from Thursday,...
Michael Kutzer: Blurring realities with an artistic worldview of simultaneous harmony and ambiguity
Art is at the core of what makes us human. Yet to many, engagement with the arts seems inaccessible. In the elaborate game of chess that is the tangible art market, the movements of players including gallerists, critics, collectors, and prospectors can make purchasing...
Heritage Conservation: Efforts to preserve cultural sites across the world must adapt to global changes
By Cornelius Holtorf, Professor of Archaeology, Linnaeus University Wars, pandemics, artificial intelligence, a swiftly unfolding climate crisis. The world is changing rapidly, and human communities must adapt to many challenges. In this situation, world heritage...
Spirited Away: Why the themes of fear and anxiety in Hayao Miyazaki’s Anime classic remain relevant today
By Northrop Davis, Professor of Media Arts, University of South Carolina When Hayao Miyazaki’s animated feature “Spirited Away” premiered in the United States 20 years ago, most viewers had not seen anything like it. Disney distributed the film. But as one critic...
Beyond routine corruption: Claiming to love America while systematically embracing the rule of oligarchs
Republicans claim to “love America,” but what does that mean? They sure don’t love our religious freedom. America was founded in 1789 as the first secular republic in the history of the world, an accomplishment the Founders and Framers reveled in. Secular literally...
A democratic recession: Why nations like China feel more embolden to extend authoritarianism
By Chris Ogden, Senior Lecturer in Asian Affairs, University of St. Andrews Over the last decade, the number of countries considered to be liberal democracies has contracted from 41 to 32, back to the same level as in 1989. In the same period, 87 other countries were...
Wisconsin company gets bipartisan congressional help against Chinese manufacturer accused of stealing IP
A bipartisan congressional team has gone to bat for a small Wisconsin manufacturer that won a federal lawsuit against a Chinese furniture giant accused of stealing its intellectual property. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and U.S. Representatives Glenn Grothman...
Weaponizing the debt ceiling: How MAGA Republicans will inflict economic ruin just to maintain power
The Senate approved a short-term extension of government funding to prevent a shutdown on September 29. The deal funds the government until December 16 and also provides about $12 billion in aid to Ukraine as it fights off Russia’s invasion. The House is expected to...
Politics and the Holocaust: America faces a reckoning about race, discrimination, and history of oppression
By Adam R. Seipp, Professor of History, Texas A&M University Robert Keith Packer, a 57-year-old Virginian, achieved a measure of infamy at the January 6 Capitol riot when he was photographed wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with a skull and crossbones along with...
The stigma of treatment: Why refugees dealing with trauma often face obstacles to mental health care
As a young boy living in what was then Zaire, Bertine Bahige remembers watching refugees flee from the Rwandan genocide in 1994 by crossing a river that forms the two Central African nations’ border. Bahige’s harrowing refugee journey began when he was kidnapped and...
