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Environmental Justice: New state office will address climate disparities and help chart a cleaner future

Environmental Justice: New state office will address climate disparities and help chart a cleaner future

Posted by | Aug 12, 2022

Every year, Wisconsin is forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars rebuilding and repairing infrastructure damaged or destroyed due to extreme weather conditions. This is growing worse because of climate change and unfortunately, these impacts are felt first and worst by communities of color, tribal nations and low-income communities. On Earth Day, Governor Tony Evers established a new Office of Environmental Justice, which is currently seeking a director. Supported by a chief resilience officer, the new office will specifically address climate disparities and help chart a stronger future for Wisconsin. Between 2000 and 2020, across Wisconsin there were...

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Political scientists have tried for three generations to figure out why Republicans detest public schools

Political scientists have tried for three generations to figure out why Republicans detest public schools

Posted by | Aug 11, 2022

For three generations political scientists have tried to figure out exactly why Republicans have been so dead set against public schools. One theory is that, like Donald Trump famously said, they “love the poorly educated.” Uninformed – or mal-informed: there is a difference between “poorly educated” and “less educated,” people are easier to manipulate than those who are well-educated. Another theory is that the billionaires who took over the GOP in the 1980s simply hate the idea of paying taxes to support the education of the kids of people who fail to get rich on their own by “pulling themselves...

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COVID’s Next Wave: Rapidly mutating virus has public questioning whether to boost now or wait

COVID’s Next Wave: Rapidly mutating virus has public questioning whether to boost now or wait

Posted by | Aug 10, 2022

Gwyneth Paige did not want to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at first. With her health issues, that included hypertension, fibromyalgia, asthma, she wanted to see how other people fared after the shots. Then her mother got colon cancer. “At that point, I didn’t care if the vaccine killed me,” she said. “To be with my mother throughout her journey, I had to have the vaccination.” Paige, who is 56 and lives in Detroit, has received three doses. That leaves her one booster short of federal health recommendations. Like Paige, who said she doesn’t currently plan to get another booster, some...

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America’s crumbling healthcare: Study finds “Medicare for All” could have prevented 338,000 COVID deaths

America’s crumbling healthcare: Study finds “Medicare for All” could have prevented 338,000 COVID deaths

Posted by | Aug 10, 2022

COVID-19 has killed more than one million people in the United States over the past two years, but more than 338,000 of those lives could have been saved if the country had a universal single-payer healthcare system such as Medicare for All. That is according to new peer-reviewed research published on June 14 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Although U.S. residents pay more for healthcare than their peers around the world, the nation’s fragmented for-profit model leaves tens of millions of people uninsured and delivers worse outcomes. Unnecessary costs and preventable deaths were already rampant in the...

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The example of Watergate: How “gate” became a symbolic substitution for political scandal

The example of Watergate: How “gate” became a symbolic substitution for political scandal

Posted by | Aug 9, 2022

By Roger J. Kreuz, Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis On June 17, 1972, Washington DC, police arrested five men for breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Although the administration’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, dismissed the crime as a “third-rate burglary,” its scope would grow to consume Richard Nixon’s presidency and then bring it to an end 26 months later. As with other infamous episodes, such as the Teapot Dome scandal or the Chappaquiddick tragedy, the event would come to be known by the place where it occurred. But unlike those two precedents,...

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