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Beloved Japanese retail chain Daiso expected to open its first Wisconsin ¥100-style store in Kenosha
Daiso, a popular Japanese discount retailer, is preparing to open its first Wisconsin location at...
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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Order to reopen Alcatraz seen as a political stunt to provoke public trauma amid mounting policy failures
Donald Trump’s order to reopen Alcatraz Island as a functioning federal prison was met with...
Space 2025: Why a U.S. moonbase penal colony would be a natural step for forced deportation after Alcatraz
Donald Trump has not proposed building a prison on the moon, yet. But the idea of launching his...
Viral images generated by ChatGPT in the style of Studio Ghibli’s art highlight AI copyright concerns
Fans of Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio behind “Spirited Away” and...
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Echoes of Yalta: How Stalin got what he wanted in Poland and now Putin could get in Ukraine
By Wendy Webster, Professor of Modern Cultural History, University of Huddersfield As Britain...
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...
Arrest of a Milwaukee judge marks escalation in Trump’s authoritarian crackdown on judiciary
It didn’t happen in some shadowy back alley or under the cover of night. It happened in broad...
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.
