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May 25, 2020: Remembering when George Floyd’s murder ignited Milwaukee and the nation five years ago
The cellphone footage from Minneapolis, showing a police officer’s knee pressed into George...
Aly Miller: Playfully navigating the relationship between place and identity with illustrative maps
In parallel with the uniqueness of an individual’s identity are the maps each of us formulates of...
Microsoft’s purchase of 240 acres in Kenosha is expected to launch a new era of tech-driven growth
The state of Wisconsin and city of Kenosha announced on January 27 that Microsoft had purchased...
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The bot that cried MAGA: How AI’s ability to lie at scale mirrors the idiocy of a movement that broke politics
The most dangerous thing artificial intelligence has learned from humanity is not how to speak. It...
America mirrors “V for Vendetta” as Trump accelerates authoritarian control over every aspect of society
The immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory solidified an unsettling...
Rethinking I-794: What removing Seoul’s “Car Sewer” can teach Milwaukee about revitalizing its downtown
Across the heart of Seoul, a river runs in a space previously buried under a concrete freeway....
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Arrest of North Korean tech spy in China signals diplomatic rift as Pyongyang expands ties to Moscow
By Linggong Kong, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Auburn University Chinese authorities in...
Trump pone en duda su creencia en el derecho fundamental al debido proceso mientras busca “gobernar el mundo”
En una entrevista transmitida el 4 de mayo en Meet the Press de NBC News, la periodista Kristen...
Analysts warn that Trump could exploit a staged crisis to distract from his collapse in popularity
Trump is starting to lose big, from courtrooms, to the press increasingly calling him out, to...
The Pandemic We Wasted: How we could have transcended our self-erected barriers of politics
What do you remember about the first days of the pandemic? I remember going to three grocery...
Being heartbroken and scared: Why a determined but peaceful resistance to Trump must start now
I will not try to hide it. I am heartbroken. Heartbroken and scared, to tell you the truth. I am...
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Thousands rally in Milwaukee as part of nationwide “Hands Off!” demonstrations against Trump and Musk
Crowds of people angry about the way Donald Trump and South African oligarch Elon Musk are running the country rallied in Milwaukee and scores of American cities on April 5 in the biggest day of demonstrations yet by an opposition movement trying to regain its momentum after the shock of the Republican’s brutal first weeks in office.
