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Factory jobs in Wisconsin get boost from President Biden’s “Buy America” infrastructure policy

Factory jobs in Wisconsin get boost from President Biden’s “Buy America” infrastructure policy

Posted by | Aug 8, 2023

Efforts by the Biden administration have been helping create new factory jobs as part of a push to bring high-speed internet to the whole country, jobs that coincidentally help to back up President Joe Biden’s messaging for the 2024 elections. Vice President Kamala Harris announced on August 3 that up to 200 new manufacturing jobs would be coming to the swing state of Wisconsin. The workers at the Sanmina factory in Kenosha County are to make parts for Nokia that help to connect customers to broadband internet. Nokia’s choice to move production to the U.S. came after an extended...

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How “Bidenomics” breaks from the economic theory that failed America’s middle class for decades

How “Bidenomics” breaks from the economic theory that failed America’s middle class for decades

Posted by | Aug 8, 2023

In Chicago at the end of June, President Joe Biden gave a historic speech at the Old Post Office Building downtown. In it, he was crystal clear that he has launched a new economic vision for the United States to stand against that of today’s Republicans. As he has said since he took office, he intends to build the economy “from the middle out and the bottom up instead of just the top down.” His vision, he said, “is a fundamental break from the economic theory that has failed America’s middle class for decades now.” That theory is “trickle-down...

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Why Republican silence over January 6 undermines democracy and fuels Trump’s bid for the White House

Why Republican silence over January 6 undermines democracy and fuels Trump’s bid for the White House

Posted by | Aug 8, 2023

When Senate Leader Mitch McConnell rose to announce his vote to acquit Donald Trump of impeachment charges in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the Republican assured the public the former president would have his day in court. “He didn’t get away with anything yet — yet,” McConnell vowed. “We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one.” But as Trump appeared in court on August 3 on federal charges that he orchestrated an unprecedented effort to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020...

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Ukrainian forces are biding time in counteroffensive to thin Russia’s resources before striking

Ukrainian forces are biding time in counteroffensive to thin Russia’s resources before striking

Posted by | Jul 23, 2023

The first phase of Ukraine’s counteroffensive to recapture Russian-occupied territory began weeks ago without fanfare. Apart from claiming that its troops are edging forward, Kyiv has not offered much detail on how it is going. Taking place mostly out of sight of impartial observers, the fighting in eastern and southern Ukraine pits troops equipped with new Western-supplied weapons against Kremlin forces that spent months digging formidable defenses and honing tactics. Here is a look at what is happening after more than 17 months of war: WHAT ARE UKRAINE’S TACTICS? Fighting has intensified at multiple points along the 930-mile front...

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Ministry at the Border: When faith calls for helping migrants while the law explicitly forbids it

Ministry at the Border: When faith calls for helping migrants while the law explicitly forbids it

Posted by | Jul 2, 2023

By Laura E. Alexander, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Goldstein Family Community Chair in Human Rights, University of Nebraska Omaha Many religious traditions preach the need to care for strangers. But what happens when caring for the stranger comes into conflict with government policy? After Title 42 restrictions at the U.S. border ended on May 11, 2023, debates about immigration have heated up again – focused mostly on reform, border security or refugees’ needs. But the treatment of immigrants is deeply intertwined with religious freedom as well. As a scholar of religious ethics who studies immigration, I am interested...

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Shift in rhetoric: GOP considers abandoning its lies against early voting in bid to win tight elections

Shift in rhetoric: GOP considers abandoning its lies against early voting in bid to win tight elections

Posted by | Jun 10, 2023

After years of criticizing mail voting and so-called ballot harvesting as ripe for fraud, Republicans at the top of the party want to change course. They are poised to launch aggressive get-out-the-vote campaigns for 2024 that employ just those strategies, attempting to match the emphasis on early voting Democrats have used for years to lock in many of their supporters well ahead of Election Day. The goal is to persuade voters who support GOP candidates that early voting techniques are secure and to make sure they are able to return their ballots in time to be counted, thus putting...

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