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Trump’s IRS betrayal of church-state separation demands an end to tax breaks for political churches
The Internal Revenue Service, once a bulwark against the corrosion of church-state boundaries in...
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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Milwaukee’s Urban Farming: How a Rust Belt City cultivated a grassroots idea into a national model
Milwaukee’s reputation as a manufacturing powerhouse once defined its economic and cultural...
Cost of bacon: Once essential workers in meatpacking during COVID pandemic now face forced deportation
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, while much of the country sheltered at home, thousands of...
How a structural shift by tech companies is allowing AI to act autonomously and without oversight
In the crowded field of artificial intelligence, two concepts are quietly redefining the...
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How sanctuary cities were formed in the 1980s to care for Central American refugees fleeing U.S. proxy wars
By Laura Madokoro, Associate Professor of History, Carleton University Sanctuary cities in the...
Governor Pritzker accuses Trump of defunding police as Chicago faces threat of military deployment
Donald J. Trump talked to reporters on August 25 as he signed several executive orders in the Oval...
Evidence of how Trump is turning America into a police state like the other dictators he admires
After a couple of wannabe carjackers punched out Big Balls in DC, Trump used it as an excuse to...
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Thousands attending EAA AirVenture 2025 welcome Vietnam veterans on the Yellow Ribbon Honor Flight
As part of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh’s annual tribute to U.S. military members, 100 Vietnam War veterans were honored with a Yellow Ribbon Honor Flight to Washington DC on July 25. The mission, now in its 11th year at the aviation convention, provided a no-cost visit to national memorials and a public welcome home decades after their service.
