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Wisconsin’s defense industry at risk if buyers shift billions in arms purchases to other Rust Belt states

Wisconsin’s defense industry at risk if buyers shift billions in arms purchases to other Rust Belt states

Posted by | Mar 23, 2025

Wisconsin’s defense industry faces economic uncertainty as neighboring states consider ways to attract shifting military contracts. Experts say Donald Trump’s foreign policy decisions have contributed to tighter budgets and strained international deals, leaving Wisconsin vulnerable to potential cutbacks. That is a serious concern for local governments and residents who rely on defense-related tax revenue. If Wisconsin’s military suppliers lose contracts to Michigan, Ohio, or Indiana, the fallout could reverberate through public services, schools, and road maintenance. With thousands of manufacturing jobs on the line, the stakes are high. A CHANGING RUST BELT LANDSCAPE The Rust Belt has long been...

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Fragility of Freedom: What “The Man in the High Castle” teaches America about Democracy in 2025

Fragility of Freedom: What “The Man in the High Castle” teaches America about Democracy in 2025

Posted by | Mar 22, 2025

In 1962, Philip K. Dick published a short but deeply disturbing novel that has managed to remain influential through the decades, “The Man in the High Castle.” Despite its relatively modest page count, the work opened the door to a vast realm of speculative fiction, prompting new ways to think about history, power, and the human condition. On the surface, Dick’s vision blends fantasy with science fiction and history. It is an account of an alternate 1960s America under Axis rule, where Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan triumphed in World War II. Beneath its deceptively simple premise, however, lies...

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Trump’s Second Act: How legacy news outlets are adapting to or abandoning their media mission

Trump’s Second Act: How legacy news outlets are adapting to or abandoning their media mission

Posted by | Mar 22, 2025

When Donald Trump seized the presidency for a second time, he found a news establishment on its heels but not completely flat on its back. Last year’s presidential campaign suggested that many traditional outlets are not depended upon, or trusted, nearly as much as they used to be. Some face leadership transitions and financial problems. Incoming power brokers, and their supporters, seek and receive information on friendly turf. Yet as with most times of transition, opportunities abound for new voices to emerge. When Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg wanted to publicize Trump-friendly policy changes in January at the social media...

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The End of Truth: Trump accomplishes what foreign adversaries failed to do for decades by silencing VOA

The End of Truth: Trump accomplishes what foreign adversaries failed to do for decades by silencing VOA

Posted by | Mar 22, 2025

It is called the Voice of America, a storied news outlet that has promised “the truth” since it first broadcast stories about democracy into Nazi Germany during World War II. Now, it is the voice of a country in which a majority of voters chose Donald Trump, a man famous for insisting the truth is what he says it is, to once again be president. What VOA will tell the world about the United States and democracy during a second Trump administration depends heavily on the convicted felon elected to run the country. Trump has jolted foreign leaders with...

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The Struggle for America’s Soul: From Confederate sabotage to Trump’s undermining of Democracy

The Struggle for America’s Soul: From Confederate sabotage to Trump’s undermining of Democracy

Posted by | Mar 21, 2025

The United States has always been an experiment in ideals. Whether Americans have lived up to them at any given point is a different question, but the idea of “government of the people, by the people, for the people” has guided the country through crises that might have ended it long ago. One of the nation’s darkest chapters came in the aftermath of the Civil War, when leaders of the defeated Confederacy refused to accept federal authority and instead waged a sustained campaign to recapture power. The betrayal happened not on battlefields, but in legislative halls, shadowy backrooms, and...

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MAGA America: Resurrecting the Confederacy’s goals to enshrine White dominance and crush Democracy

MAGA America: Resurrecting the Confederacy’s goals to enshrine White dominance and crush Democracy

Posted by | Mar 21, 2025

Restoring power to the richest, Whitest men in the room. How long can democracy survive under Trump’s iron grip? Welcome to the new Confederate States of America. Much like the old CSA, the new CSA (also known as MAGA America) is devoted to making American as White as possible, stripping women and minorities of political and economic power, gutting workers’ rights, rigging election outcomes, leaders nakedly taking bribes, using a phony veneer of Christianity to justify brutal policies, making queer people invisible, reconfiguring schools for indoctrination, having militias terrorize minorities and their opponents, and maintaining a government of, by,...

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