Images by Milwaukee Independent of Old Main’s former condition of decay featured in new PBS documentary
Milwaukee PBS premiered a new documentary “A Hallowed Home for Heroes” on November 6. It details the historic past of Old Main, also known as Milwaukee’s Soldiers Home, through decades of use as a care center for veterans since the Civil War, its...
American families scramble to cope after Republicans fail to renew Federal aid for child care programs
Kaitlyn Adkins is studying law to help families in her community impacted by the opioid epidemic at the heart of West Virginia coal country. But to do that, she needs someone to help look after her three toddlers. The first-generation college graduate said she would...
AI Jesus: Latest chatbot iteration turns Christian messiah into an internet guru
By Joseph L. Kimmel, Part-Time Faculty Member (Theology Department), Boston College Jesus has been portrayed in many different ways: from a prophet who alerts his audience to the world’s imminent end to a philosopher who reflects on the nature of life. But no one has...
When children and grandchildren of Latino immigrants find language induces an identity crisis
By Amelia Tseng, Assistant Professor in Spanish and Linguistics, American University A young Latina mother I was interviewing once laughed uncomfortably as she described her sons’ embarrassment when put on the spot by older Latinos. They would speak to her sons in...
U.N. reports more than 40% of Ukrainians need humanitarian help under horrendous war conditions
Russian strikes are inflicting unimaginable suffering on the people of Ukraine and more than 40% of them need humanitarian assistance, a senior U.N. official told the U.N. Security Council on October 31. Ramesh Rajasingham, director of coordination in the U.N....
Kristallnacht: The point when emotional antisemitism became systematic government violence 85 years ago
By Michael Scott Bryant, Professor of History and Legal Studies, Bryant University Late in 1938, Nazis across Germany attacked Jews and their homes, businesses and places of worship and arrested about 30,000 Jewish men. The attacks became known as Kristallnacht, the...
A fascist commitment: How Trump’s violent rhetoric echoes a destructive and bloody shift of society
By Mark R. Reiff, Research Affiliate in Legal and Political Philosophy, University of California, Davis Former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric has regularly bordered on the incitement of violence. Lately, however, it has become even more violent. Yet both the press...
Why some traumatized Israeli journalists are taking sides over the narrative they communicate
When 85-year-old Israeli woman Yocheved Lifshitz was released from Hamas captivity in mid-October, she was warmly welcomed home. Then she began to speak. Addressing reporters from a wheelchair at a hospital, Lifshitz described a harrowing experience in Hamas captivity...
Israel’s identity: How intergenerational trauma shapes Jewish responses to Hamas war criticism
By Dov Waxman, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles In the wake of the Hamas terror attacks on Israel on October 7, and the Israeli military response, Jewish people in Israel and around the world...
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Pentagon working to restore benefits to veterans targeted for being LGBTQ+
The Pentagon began a new effort to contact former service members who may have been forced out of the military and deprived of years of benefits due to policies targeting their sexual orientation, starting with those who served under “Don’t Ask,...
Pentagon’s prevention programs saw modest results in 2022 with a dip in the number of military suicides
The number of suicides among U.S. military members and their families dipped slightly in 2022, compared with the previous year, as the Defense Department tries to build prevention and treatment programs to address what has been a steadily growing problem over the past...
Our Culture War is actually a conflict between telling the truth or perpetuating the lies about who we are
“History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled...
