Tilting toward a recession: The risks of a domestic economy in an interconnected global world
By D. Brian Blank, Assistant Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University The U.S. Federal Reserve holds inordinate sway over the world’s economies. Yet it acts, in some ways, like they do not really matter. Its power is primarily because of the dominance of the...
A complete lie: Understanding the propaganda behind the political meme that “America is a 50/50 nation”
Three republican presidents did it, in every case to hold onto a Republican Senate. Lincoln did it. Grant did it. Harrison did it. It is getting close to time for Biden to do it. Mitch McConnell was recently on TV telling wealthy donors to a fundraiser in Kentucky,...
Federal judge overturns ruling to ensure Wisconsin voters with disabilities get assistance to cast a ballot
A federal judge on August 31 blocked a ruling that would have prevented Wisconsin voters with disabilities from getting assistance when casting a ballot. The ruling will allow voters with disabilities to have another person return their absentee ballots for them. In...
Freedom Ride North: Why Abbott and DeSantis are playing with human lives like a racist sport
They came off the buses and planes hoping for a promised new life, a home, and paying work. They brought their children, on their best behavior, excited to meet American kids and enroll in school. Hungry from the long trip, they were wondering what their first meal...
Voluntary Motherhood: When suffragists embraced a right to reject unwanted sex for fear of pregnancy
By Lauren Thompson, Assistant Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies, Kennesaw State University The history of abortion in the U.S. guided some of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s arguments in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision....
Wisconsin and beyond: Handful of state candidates supporting Trump’s “Big Lie” likely to tilt 2024 election
Republican candidates who claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump have been nominated for governor in four critical swing states, raising concerns that if elected they could try to sway election results in 2024 and beyond. In Arizona, Pennsylvania,...
Abortion Care: Clinics in neighboring states team up to offer reproductive health services to Wisconsinites
Around two days a week, Natalee Hartwig leaves her home in Madison, Wisconsin, before her son wakes up to travel across the border into Illinois. “Luckily it’s summer,” said Hartwig, a nurse midwife at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. “For now, he can sleep in. But...
Therapeutic Abortions: Wisconsin physicians remain unclear about ambiguous wording of 173-year-old ban
Physicians criticize the law as outdated, vague and severe. Health systems are scrambling to guide them on how to stay out of criminal trouble. The patient sat in Dr. Shefaali Sharma’s exam room, distraught. She was pregnant with her third child. Just weeks earlier,...
Support for abortion: A time before Southern Baptists embraced governmental control of a woman’s body
By Name Here, Academic title and school goes in this space in italic The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and often referred to as the “bellwether for conservative Christianity,” has long voiced opposition to...
Ukraine War Stories: Developer releases online game using real life events from Hostomel, Bucha, Mariupol
Kyiv-based game developer Starni Games has launched a special charity project, “Ukraine War Stories.” A demo version of the online game is available now for the PC, with a full release date planned for October 2022. Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual...
Running short on soldiers: Why Putin continues to ignore Russia’s staggering losses on the battlefield
By Alexander Hill, Professor of Military History, University of Calgary Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine recaptured thousands of square miles of territory from Russian forces in a matter of days in a counteroffensive near Kharkiv. Kyiv has since...
National Security: What the U.S. Military can learn from Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine
In Washington, wide agreement exists that the Russian army’s performance in the Kremlin’s ongoing Ukraine “special military operation” ranks somewhere between lousy and truly abysmal. The question is: Why? The answer in American policy circles,...
