Governor Evers signs his new legislative maps into law in effort to correct for years of GOP gerrymandering
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers signed new legislative district maps into law on February 19 that he proposed and that the Republicans, who dominate the Legislature after years of gerrymandering elections, passed to avoid having the liberal-controlled state Supreme...
Visual storytelling: Black communities are using mapping to restore their sense of place
By Joshua F.J. Inwood, Professor of Geography and Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State; Derek H. Alderman, Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee When historian Carter Woodson created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became...
Ireichō Day Of Remembrance: Monument to Japanese Americans detained during WWII lists 125,000 names
Samantha Sumiko Pinedo and her grandparents filed into a dimly lit enclosure at the Japanese American National Museum and approached a massive book splayed open to reveal columns of names. Pinedo was hoping the list included her great-grandparents, who were detained...
Justice Department improves accountability for tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement
The U.S. Justice Department has created a database to track records of misconduct by federal law enforcement officers that is aimed at preventing agencies from unknowingly hiring problem officers. The federal move is a step toward accountability amid growing calls to...
Revenue-motivated policing: When municipal courts set aside fairness in the pursuit of profits
By Sian Mughan, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, Arizona State University; and Akheil Singla, Assistant Professor at the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University When city governments spend more money than they take in, officials often search for ways...
A dangerous decade: Report says the world faces more instability ahead as military conflicts expand
The world has entered an era of increasing instability as countries around the globe boost military spending in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Hamas attack on Israel, and China’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea. That was the...
Israel’s ethnic diversity: Why the population of the Jewish nation is far from monolithic
By Jessica Trisko Darden, Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth University As the toll of the Israel-Hamas war continues to mount, Israeli military casualties are shedding new light on a topic that rarely gets international media attention,...
Reggie Jackson: Why the denial of Black oppression is growing as another false American narrative
“If some groups are simply meant to be at the bottom, then there are no questions to ask about their deprivation, isolation and poverty. There are no questions to ask about the society which produces that deprivation, isolation and poverty. And there is nothing to be...
Financial Red Flags: How technology helps scammers trick Americans out of more money than ever before
With the help of technology, scammers are tricking Americans out of more money than ever before. But there are steps you can take to keep your money and information safe. In 2022, reported consumer losses to fraud totaled $8.8 billion — a 30 percent increase from...
Romance scams: Research details how to defend against the scheming tactics of online swindlers
By Fangzhou Wang, Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Texas at Arlington In the Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler,” victims exposed notorious con artist Simon Leviev, who posed as a wealthy diamond mogul on the popular dating...
Trump’s Immigration Con: Why MAGA Republicans killed bipartisan legislation they demanded to secure border
How it began: President Joe Biden was urgently seeking more money from Congress to aid Ukraine and Israel. He took a gamble by seizing on GOP demands to simultaneously address one of his biggest political liabilities, illegal migration at the Mexico-U.S. border. How...
Year of the Dragon: How Asian communities around the world celebrate the 2024 Lunar New Year
Asian American communities around the U.S. will ring in the Year of the Dragon on February 10 with community carnivals, family gatherings, parades, traditional food, fireworks, and other festivities. In many Asian countries, it is a festival that is celebrated for...
