Corporate Complicity: Why billionaires underwrite Trump and his allies to pay as little tax as possible
In 2016, when clashes with taxi drivers broke out in 2016 in Paris, Uber’s then-chief executive Travis Kalanick texted fellow executives that “violence guarantees success” in what was a key market for the company. Uber leveraged the violence against its drivers to win...
Big Lie’s Big Money: Watchdog group criticizes Northwestern Mutual’s donations to election deniers
In the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, major businesses across the country spoke out in support of democracy, but those statements don’t always reflect where they donate. That is according to an ongoing scorecard of Fortune 100 businesses released this...
Santiago Calatrava Day: Architect of Art Museum’s Quadracci Pavilion honored on 20th Anniversary
The Milwaukee Art Museum welcomed the legendary architect Santiago Calatrava back to Milwaukee for the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Quadracci Pavilion, during a press conference on September 14. Completed in 2001 and considered the largest piece of art in...
Living Architecture: How human-centered design can alter the trend of constructing soulless buildings
By Tim Gorichanaz, Assistant Teaching Professor of Information Studies, Drexel University My first Apple laptop felt like a piece of magic made just for me, almost a part of myself. The rounded corners, the lively shading, the delightful animations. I had been using...
Cellphones and Kaiju: Why pop culture uses mobile network towers to symbolize our collective anxieties
By Steven Jones, Professor of English and Digital Humanities (Ret.), University of South Florida The new movie “Fall” is a survival-thriller about two young women, Becky and Hunter, who are avid rock climbers. To mark the one-year anniversary of Becky’s husband’s...
A lingering labor shortage: Businesses struggle as long COVID sidelines thousands of Wisconsin workers
Federal government assistance for paid time off due to COVID-19 has ended, but some employers accommodate ailing workers amid a lingering labor shortage. In November 2020, Danielle Sigler tested approximately 200 residents in a Mount Horeb, Wis. nursing home during a...
Pandemic Boosters: COVID-19 vaccine could become annual necessity like the flu shot
COVID-19 boosters shots are on track to become as frequent as the annual flu shot, though high-risk people may need more than one dose per year, Biden administration officials said on September 6. “For a large majority of Americans, we are moving to a point where a...
Crisis Fatigue: How overexposure to traumatic news pushes the public to becomes indifferent to tragedy
By Rebecca Rozelle-Stone, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Dakota When Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine by land, air and sea on February 24, 2022, the images of war were conveyed to dismayed onlookers around the world. Far from the...
Climate-resilient public transit will be crucial to ensuring mobility for vulnerable communities
Last September, New York City was so thoroughly inundated by Hurricane Ida that some commuters waded through water up to their waists just to get in and out of the subway station. Across the country, extreme heat battered the West Coast, melting Portland’s streetcar...
Post-Pandemic Transit: How deploying more electric buses could help MCTS recover lost revenue
After the pandemic slashed ridership, public transit agencies in the state could recoup lost funds by going electric, but not all agencies can cover the upfront costs. In Milwaukee County, at least 11 new electric buses could start running by next June. The county’s...
An Environmental Feud: Why a Lake Michigan seawall created more problems for downstream neighbors
Six years ago, David Spector bought an 80-year old house perched on a 120-foot bluff that provided a panoramic view of Lake Michigan’s endless horizon. But that priceless view may cost Spector more than he could have imagined as ongoing shoreline erosion edges his...
A planetary crisis: Expanding universal human rights to include a healthy and sustainable environment
By Joel E. Correia, Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Florida Climate change is already affecting much of the world’s population, with startlingly high temperatures from the Arctic to Australia. Air pollution from wildfires, vehicles and...
