Family farms face an harsh future as young farmers struggle with health insurance and child care
By Shoshanah Inwood, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University; Andrea Rissing, President’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University; and Florence Becot, Associate Research...
Pro-Cancel Culture: Right-wing ideology has always tried to ostracize people for the views it despises
“It’s official: the Republican party is more devoted to a one-term, twice impeached con man than they are to the truth and protecting our democracy. Truth shouldn’t be political. Those who speak uncomfortable truths should be heard, not pushed to...
Backing the Big Lie: Republicans seek to airbrush the 1/6 Capitol attack from history to avoid an investigation
“Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.” So begins the report of the 9/11 commission, which investigated the terrorist attacks 20 years ago with bipartisan support. Will there be a similarly limpid introduction...
Invisible Cyclists: Why people of color need to be part of post-pandemic transportation planning
By Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University As states and workplaces begin opening up at different speeds and with various levels of health safety restrictions after a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are...
What it means now that Milwaukee has banned police from using chokeholds without exception
Police in Milwaukee are now banned from using chokeholds, following a unanimous vote by the Fire and Police Commission. The FPC meeting was preceded by weeks of organizing by residents and activists pushing for the ban on a hold officers were not trained to utilize....
The Bad Apples: How qualified immunity protects police officers accused of wrongdoing
By Ronnie R. Gipson Jr., Assistant Professor of Law, University of Memphis When police officers kill people without apparent justification, those officers may face both criminal charges, as in the case of Derek Chauvin who was convicted of murdering George Floyd in...
Disparities in access to hormone treatments is leaving transgender kids divided into two classes
By Travers, Professor of Sociology, Simon Fraser University For people who have never thought about it before, it might sound reasonable to require trans kids to wait until they are adults before they can receive certain forms of care known as gender-affirming...
A strategy of fear: Anti-transgender bills are latest effort to rally political support at expense of youths
By Alison Gash, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon On April 6, 2021, despite Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson’s veto, Arkansas became the first state to prohibit physicians from providing gender-affirming medical care like hormone...
Gaza tower that served as home to international media organizations was destroyed by Israeli air strike
The Israeli air force has destroyed a tower block in Gaza City housing the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera in what has widely been decried as an attack on press freedom. The airstrikes on May 15 – the sixth consecutive day of hostilities between Israel...
Israel has its own “Black Lives Matter” reckoning as Palestinian minority protests against Anti-Arab Racism
By James L. Gelvin, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles The images and reports coming from Israel, Jerusalem and Gaza in recent days are shocking. They are also surprising to those who thought the 2020 Abraham Accords and...
CDC announces that masks are no longer required indoors or outside for fully vaccinated people
Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 do not need to wear a mask in most situations, indoors and outdoors, federal health officials said in an updated set of recommendations on May 13 that marks a major turning point in the pandemic. The announcement is a shift...
Revised COVID-19 health guidelines allows sports teams in Milwaukee to expand fan capacity up to 50%
The Bucks and the Brewers will expand fan capacity to 50% based on updated COVID-19 guidelines from the Milwaukee Health Department. At Fiserv Forum, the Bucks were hosting about 3,300 spectators per game. That number will increase to about 9,000 when the NBA playoffs...
