la comunidad puertorriqueña de Milwaukee celebra el histórico regreso del desfile tras tres décadas de ausencia
Milwaukee fue sede del regreso del Desfile del Día Puertorriqueño el 8 de junio, marcando la primera vez en tres décadas que la ciudad celebró públicamente a gran escala el Día Nacional Puertorriqueño. El desfile comenzó en South 16th Street y National Avenue, avanzó...
Milwaukee advocates join peaceful nationwide protests against Trump’s mass detentions by ICE in L.A.
Donald Trump made no secret of his willingness to use maximalist tactics to enforce his biased interpretation of immigration laws as he campaigned in the 2024 election to stay out of jail. The fulfillment of that pledge to Americans is now on full display in Los...
Milwaukee Independent emerges as a Wisconsin leader for reporting on artificial intelligence
As artificial intelligence reshapes global industries, raises ethical alarms, and floods the internet with generated content, few Wisconsin newsrooms have approached the subject with the consistency or depth of the Milwaukee Independent. While national outlets have...
Nationalist revisionism: How the 1776 report laid the groundwork for Trump’s war on U.S. history
Four years after it was quietly released in the final days of Donald Trump’s first term, a little-known White House document, the “1776 Report,” has reemerged as a central ideological guidepost for the president’s second-term push to reshape public education, censor...
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, Coastal Carolina University I have spent years studying and teaching Japanese anime, exploring how its narratives intertwine with cultural, philosophical and religious...
Milwaukee could be a battleground for resistance if Trump ever turned the U.S. military on Americans
EDITOR’S NOTE: This scenario, developed by Milwaukee Independent, is not a prediction. It is a structured exploration of what could unfold if Donald Trump declared martial law and used the U.S. military to suppress domestic opposition. Drawing on legal...
How transgender people became a political lightning rod even though they are 1% of the U.S. population
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump used contentiousness around transgender people’s access to sports and bathrooms to fire up conservative voters and sway undecideds. And in his first months back in office, Trump has pushed the issue further, erasing mention of...
Sacramental Shame: How LGBTQ+ conservative Christians wrestle with and find spiritual healing
By Dawne Moon, Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University; and Theresa Tobin, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University Kai found Jesus as a teenager. A person of White and Hawaiian descent, Kai now goes by gender-neutral pronouns...
From Mao to MAGA: How Trump’s decade of political chaos echoes China’s Cultural Revolution
China descended into chaos under the direction of its own leader in 1966. Mao Zedong, facing diminished influence after the Great Leap Forward’s disastrous failure, launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution. It was framed as a purge of...
ICE expands 287(g) to record levels under Trump as critics warn of lost trust and diminished safety
By W. Carsten Andresen, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, St. Edward’s University During his first few months in office, President Donald Trump has been establishing a framework for deporting undocumented immigrants en masse. It is something he has...
June 6 “D-Day” protest against Trump’s VA cuts marks historic moment as U.S. veterans mobilize for survival
By Jamie Rowen, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst Veterans across the United States will gather on June 6, 2025, to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as the slashing of staff...
Advocates warn fast-tracking of Line 5 tunnel project threatens Wisconsin’s Lake Superior watershed
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to fast-track permits for building a protective tunnel around an aging Enbridge oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes, stoking environmentalists’ fears that the project will escape...
