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Today’s Americans are called to repay the sacrifices of fallen heroes by living up to the ideas of democracy

Today’s Americans are called to repay the sacrifices of fallen heroes by living up to the ideas of democracy

Posted by | Jun 3, 2021 |

President Joe Biden spoke at Arlington National Cemetery on May 31 to remember those who gave the “last full measure of devotion” to the United States, dying in our service. His speech was a full-throated defense of the cause for which those soldiers gave their lives: democracy. “Democracy is more than a form of government,” Biden said. “It’s a way of being; it’s a way of seeing the world. Democracy means the rule of the people — the rule of the people. Not the rule of monarchs, not the rule of the moneyed, not the rule of the mighty...

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Defined by its delusions: How the Republican Party became the greatest danger to American Democracy

Defined by its delusions: How the Republican Party became the greatest danger to American Democracy

Posted by | Jun 3, 2021 |

The greatest danger to American democracy right now is not coming from Russia, China, or North Korea. It is coming from the Republican Party. Only 25 percent of voters self-identify as Republican, the GOP’s worst showing against Democrats since 2012 and sharply down since last November. But those who remain in the Party are far angrier, more ideological, more truth-denying, and more racist than Republicans who preceded them. And so are the lawmakers who represent them. Today’s Republican Party increasingly is defined not by its shared beliefs but by its shared delusions. On May 28, 54 U.S. senators voted...

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Jumpst(ART) Downtown: New community art campaign spreads positivity to reanimate public spaces

Jumpst(ART) Downtown: New community art campaign spreads positivity to reanimate public spaces

Posted by | Jun 1, 2021 |

Milwaukee Downtown BID #21 launched Jumpst(ART) Downtown on May 27, a new summer campaign designed to reanimate downtown’s parks and sidewalks with visual and performing arts. The initiative brings and infusion of arts and culture to the downtown area over the summer. Adding to downtown’s burgeoning street art scene, the new murals, temporary art installations, and street performances will pop up in unexpected spaces to offer safe and exciting experiences throughout the summer. “It’s time to jumpstart our economy,” said Beth Weirick, CEO of Milwaukee Downtown BID #21. “Our new arts and culture initiatives offer something for everyone to...

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Living military veterans continue to face deadly risks that have nothing to do with war

Living military veterans continue to face deadly risks that have nothing to do with war

Posted by | May 31, 2021 |

By Jamie Rowen, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst As the nation takes a day to memorialize its military dead, living military veterans are facing a deadly risk that has nothing to do with war or conflict: the coronavirus. Different groups and communities have faced different degrees of danger from the pandemic, exemplified by the humanitarian disaster in India and the inequalities in U.S. health outcomes, vaccine distribution problems and outright rejection of vaccines. Veterans have been among the most hard-hit, with heightened health and economic threats from the pandemic. These veterans face...

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Very fine people on both sides: The fallacy of forging political bipartisanship with White Supremacy

Very fine people on both sides: The fallacy of forging political bipartisanship with White Supremacy

Posted by | May 29, 2021

For months I have been hearing about pursuing a bipartisan America; about this nation needing to forge a new spirit of political collaboration if we ever hope to bridge the massive divides here. I’m tired of hearing that. We all know how we got here. We have all lived through the past five years. We saw the “both sides” rhetoric in Charlottesville. We saw the George Floyd murder. We saw the violence against the BLM protests. We saw the support for Kyle Rittenhouse. We saw the conspiratorial pandemic denials. We saw the anti-mask defiance. We saw the legislative attacks...

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