Two bowls of poison: China ponders who is the lesser of two evils between Trump and Biden
As the U.S. presidential campaign moves closer to a Donald Trump-Joe Biden rematch, China is watching uneasily. First, there are concerns about the campaign itself, where candidates are likely to talk tough on China. That could threaten the fragile improvements in...
Seven Mountain Mandate: Christian nationalism returns to the same theocracy used to justify slavery
The Alabama Supreme Court on February 16 decided that cells awaiting implantation for in vitro fertilization are children and that the accidental destruction of such an embryo falls under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. In an opinion concurring with the...
Black journalists have always known the “Lost Cause” myth was enshrined in Confederate monuments
By Donovan Schaefer, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania In October 2023, nearly seven years after the deadly Unite the Right white supremacist rally, the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, was...
Wisconsin Supreme Court petitioned to rule on outdated 1849 abortion law as unconstitutional
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin asked the state Supreme Court on February 22 to overturn a 174-year-old state law that conservatives have interpreted as an abortion ban. It was the second legal challenge to the statute since the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Roe v....
Luke Waldo: How the weight of poverty and systemic failures are overloading families
“The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the assurance that his income is stable and certain, and when he knows that he has the means to seek self-improvement.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
Believe in Ukraine: Milwaukee continues its solidarity on second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion
Milwaukee marked the solemn second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and the 10th anniversary of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, with a powerful show of solidarity at O’Donnell Park in downtown on February 24. City officials,...
Irpin and Zelenskyy: Documenting the brutality of Putin’s full-scale invasion in images for two years
Two years ago today, the free world awoke to the horrific news about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation in the heart of Europe. February 24 marks the second anniversary of a brutal conflict that has reshaped the geopolitical landscape,...
The humanitarian case for why Ukraine cannot accept anything less than total liberation of its land
In a detailed analysis published on December 31 by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), experts Frederick W. Kagan, George Barros, Noel Mikkelsen, and Daniel Mealie outlined a compelling argument for Ukraine’s complete liberation from Russian occupation....
Out of sight, out of mind: UN refugee chief worries the world has forgotten about the brutal war in Ukraine
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said in late January that that he was worried that the war in Ukraine has been forgotten, as the country prepares to mark two years since the start of Russia’s brutal full-scale invasion. UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi also...
Russia’s empire of lies: Why Putin is desperate to control the narrative of Ukrainian self-identity
By Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Associate Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University Controlling the narrative has long been crucial to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in his brutal war against Ukraine. In the worldview he...
Senator Ron Johnson tells Congress he sees no point in using taxpayer dollars to stop Putin in Ukraine
At about 2 a.m. on February 13, Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin stood on the Senate floor and explained why he opposed sending more aid to help Ukraine fend off the invasion launched in 2022 by Russian President Vladimir Putin. “A lot of the points...
What Made America Great was Hate: Trump promises massive domestic deportations if re-elected
On February 29, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 enabling military authorities to designate military areas from which “any or all persons may be excluded.” That order, drafted in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire...
