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How the Boomer generation let political fat-cats rob Millennials and Zoomers of their future wealth

Dear Millennials and Zoomers: back in the 1980s a lot of us worked like hell to try to stop the Reagan revolution. We failed. The next two years may be our last chance to save American democracy, our environment, and what’s left of the American middle-class. When my Boomer generation was the same average age as the Millennial generation is today, back in 1990, our generation held 21.3% of the nation’s wealth. Louise and I shared in that wealth; although we were still in our 30s, in 1990 we owned a profitable small business (our fourth) and a nice home in suburban Atlanta....

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Majority at stake: Why Wisconsin’s spring 2023 supreme court race will be an “electoral ground zero”

Just weeks after the 2022 midterm elections, Wisconsin is already moving on to this spring’s state supreme court race in which the ideological tilt of the court is up for grabs. Justice Patience Roggensack is retiring at the end of her term, leaving an open seat on the body that conservatives currently control with a 4-3 majority. The current makeup of the court, with conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn serving as a crucial swing vote, has led to more 4-3 decisions than any supreme court term in 70 years. The conservative majority on the court has upheld a law that...

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Targeting civilian power supply earns Russia the “state sponsor of terror” title as winter’s chill begins to bite

By Jonathan Este, Associate Editor, International Affairs Editor Large areas of Ukraine, including the capital, are now without power much of the time. And still Moscow persists with its strategy of targeting Ukraine’s power supply. It’s hard to argue – as the Kremlin continues to insist – that these are military targets. On November 23 a two-day old baby was killed when what have been reported to be Russian missiles hit a maternity ward in Zaporizhzhia. The region is home to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and has come under particularly bombardment recently. The plant itself has been under...

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A powerful dynamic of war: Why Ukrainian liberation is an incentive for allies like the United States

Amid the death and destruction war leaves in its wake, there are powerful dynamics and narratives: domination, besieged populations, occupation and their counterparts, resistance, freedom and liberation. Vast swaths of Western and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union knew this well at various points of the 20th century: Paris, Leningrad, Sarajevo. Iraq and Syria more recently in the 21st century. In Russia’s nearly nine-month war in Ukraine, the names of towns and cities like Mariupol, Bucha, Irpin, Kharkiv, and Kherson have been seared on the global consciousness as they witnessed the full spectrum of wartime horrors and more recently,...

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Experts from Ukraine join NATO probe of fatal missile strike that killed two in Poland

Experts from Ukraine have joined Polish and American investigators who are looking into a missile blast that killed two men in eastern Poland this week. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on November 18 that the Ukrainian experts were at the grain-drying facility in the Polish village of Przewodow where the missile landed on November 15. The village is located about 4 miles from Poland’s border with Ukraine. “We will continue our cooperation in an open and constructive manner, as closest friends do,” Kuleba tweeted. “I am grateful to the Polish side for granting them access.” Polish media reported...

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Zdyrko Yaroslav: My journey across Ukraine to report on the war with a photojournalist from Milwaukee

“Without the help of the Milwaukee Independent’s editorial team for the project Reports From Ukraine, I would not have been able to take a single photograph. Very heartfelt thanks is due them. Yaroslav Zdyrko provided security, logistical support, and was our videographer; Oleh Pinta was our Ukrainian and Russian language translator and reporter, and Halyna Salapata supported our work with translation services and coordinated our schedule.” – Lee Matz For me, the journey began on Sunday, May 22, 2022. Already awake when the morning alarm clock rang, I turned it off and left my home. Russian attacks on our...

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