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Reports from Ukraine: Traveling from Milwaukee to a country at war just to take a vacation from America

Reports from Ukraine: Traveling from Milwaukee to a country at war just to take a vacation from America

Posted by | Jun 6, 2022

Reports from Ukraine: This feature is part of an original Milwaukee Independent editorial series that recorded news from cities across Ukraine, including Milwaukee's sister city of Irpin, in May 2022. It was the first and, at that time, only news organization in Wisconsin that traveled to the country since it was invaded. The purpose of this journalism project was to document personal stories and events that detailed or showed the conditions of the war at that time, and their connections to Milwaukee. mkeind.com/reportsfromukraine I have thought long and hard about what I would say when writing about my experience...

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A retreat on all fronts: How Putin’s ego instigated the exact outcomes his invasion attempted to prevent

A retreat on all fronts: How Putin’s ego instigated the exact outcomes his invasion attempted to prevent

Posted by | Jun 5, 2022

The military, economic, and diplomatic goals of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin stood in ruins after three months of war in Ukraine. Russia’s retreat from Kharkiv in late May, Ukraine’s second-largest city, pushed Moscow’s forces back to their border 25 miles away and taken their artillery beyond the city’s range. Russia seemed to contract plans for a grand pincer movement around Ukrainian forces in the country’s east, partly because of a lack of manpower. A particularly humiliating defeat occurred on May 11 when Ukrainian forces inflicted heavy losses on the Russian 74th Motorized Rifle Brigade, as it attempted to cross...

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Destruction of Trust: The most important aspect of a democracy that enemies relentlessly target first

Destruction of Trust: The most important aspect of a democracy that enemies relentlessly target first

Posted by | Jun 4, 2022

The crisis with the Supreme Court; the racist mass shooter in Buffalo; Republican primary candidates trying to one-up each other on how they will refuse to count all the ballots in the 2024 election; and our hitting 1 million deaths from COVID all derive from the same thing: the destruction of trust. Donald Trump destroyed our trust in our public health institutions for his own political gain, so we have massively more Covid deaths than, for example, Australia. As the New York Times noted this weekend: “If the United States had the same COVID death rate as Australia, about...

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Moving the nation forward by investing in ordinary Americans was what created our strong economy

Moving the nation forward by investing in ordinary Americans was what created our strong economy

Posted by | Jun 3, 2022

While most eyes have been on the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision, the Biden administration has continued its work to move the country forward, demonstrating that investing in ordinary Americans creates a strong economy. Since the 1980s, Republicans have insisted that the way to establish strong economic growth is to cut business regulations and taxes in order to free up innovation and capital for investment. Rejecting the system in place since 1933 that used the government to keep the economic playing field level and protect the rights of workers, Republicans argued that the economy worked best when...

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Weapons of Mass Hate: Why the poison that is racism has never improved America’s condition

Weapons of Mass Hate: Why the poison that is racism has never improved America’s condition

Posted by | Jun 1, 2022

The Republican Party has a terrorism problem, and the failure of the party’s leadership and members to call it out after the terrorist attack in Buffalo suggests they are just fine with it. The only high-profile Republican to have said a serious negative word against “White replacement terrorists” within the party was Liz Cheney, who tweeted: “The House GOP leadership has enabled White Nationalism, White Supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.” Of all the politically motivated...

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Persistent Poverty: Our child welfare system is falling short of meeting needs due to overwhelming demand

Persistent Poverty: Our child welfare system is falling short of meeting needs due to overwhelming demand

Posted by | Jun 1, 2022

By Astraea Augsberger, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Boston University; Mary Elizabeth Collins, Professor of Social Welfare Policy, Boston University Although government spending on the child welfare system totaled US$33 billion in 2018, the most recent year for which an estimate is available, it is still failing to meet all children’s needs because of overwhelming demand. Abuse and neglect investigations, foster care and the other activities and services that comprise the child welfare system can harm children and the rest of their families. Communities of color are the most susceptible to this damage: 37% of all children – including...

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