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Barriers and Disillusionment: Obstacles still prevent Wisconsin’s nonvoters from attaining political clout

Barriers and Disillusionment: Obstacles still prevent Wisconsin’s nonvoters from attaining political clout

Posted by | Jan 31, 2021 |

Working digitally and on the streets of Milwaukee, activists tried to convince nonvoters to go to the polls, but distrust and disgust kept some away. When Angela Lang reflected on the thousands of conversations she and other members of her community organization, BLOC, have had with Milwaukee residents, one floats to the top of her mind. It was with a 54-year-old Milwaukee resident who explained to Lang’s colleague that she was not voting because she was a convicted felon. Unbeknownst to her, she had been eligible for about 12 years — since she completed her probation. A BLOC staffer...

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The Cowboy Mythology: Twenty years since the Reagan Revolution and the rise of Movement Conservatives

The Cowboy Mythology: Twenty years since the Reagan Revolution and the rise of Movement Conservatives

Posted by | Jan 31, 2021

We are now twenty years into this century. In America, the twenty years since 2000 have seen the end game of the Reagan Revolution, begun in 1980. In that era, political leaders on the right turned against the principles that had guided the country since the 1930s, when Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt guided the nation out of the Great Depression by using the government to stabilize the economy. During the Depression and World War Two, Americans of all parties had come to believe the government had a role to play in regulating the economy, providing a basic social...

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Which false God will American Evangelicals worship now that Trump has become a fallen deity?

Which false God will American Evangelicals worship now that Trump has become a fallen deity?

Posted by | Jan 31, 2021

By Stewart Clem, Assistant Professor of Moral Theology, Aquinas Institute of Theology Donald Trump, by his own words and actions, does not appear to be the religious person or even someone who believes in a higher power beyond himself. He has claimed he doesn’t seek forgiveness from God, and he once tried to put money in a Communion plate. Apart from his controversial photo op while holding up a Bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, he doesn’t seem especially concerned with Christian symbolism. And yet 76% of white evangelical voters supported him in the 2020 election. It’s...

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A tedious familiarity: Why even the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine has been a hot mess

A tedious familiarity: Why even the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine has been a hot mess

Posted by | Jan 29, 2021 |

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” – A quote improperly attributed to Albert Einstein Back in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic it was clear that a lack of coordination between the federal, state and local governments led to not just delays, but major confusion. Well guess what? Here we are again. Despite the promise that 20 million Americans would be inoculated with the first dose of vaccine from either Pfizer or Moderna by year end, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that...

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Research finds that People of Color are subject to the most punitive enforcement of public health orders

Research finds that People of Color are subject to the most punitive enforcement of public health orders

Posted by | Jan 29, 2021

COVID-19’s spread is neither colorblind nor colorless, sending Black, Latinx and Indigenous people to the hospital at a rate four times higher than white people. To make matters worse, the people of color and immigrant communities who already bear the brunt of the Covid-19 outbreak are also subject to the most punitive enforcement of emergency public health orders. The co-occurring pandemics of Covid-19 and state violence are deeply interconnected. The COVID-19 Policing Project launched in May 2020 to monitor how cities, states, territories and tribal jurisdictions police the pandemic. As we watched cops drag a Black man off a...

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The Coming Storm: My greatest fears about the future of Black Milwaukee

The Coming Storm: My greatest fears about the future of Black Milwaukee

Posted by | Jan 28, 2021

In 2005, a catastrophic hurricane named Katrina, hit Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana with a ferocity rarely seen. We witnessed the infrastructure designed to protect the city of New Orleans, fail miserably. It should have been a wake up call about the impact of disinvestment in Black communities around the country. Instead, it gave rich developers and the politicians that do their bidding, an opportunity to get rid of a great segment of the Black residents of the city. The Black people who gave New Orleans its unique “soul” were discarded and sent across the country as so-called “refugees.” The...

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