Cauldrons of Booze: Women once dominated the beer industry until claims of witchcraft expelled them
By Laken Brooks, Doctoral Student of English, University of Florida What do witches have to do with your favorite beer? When I pose this question to students in my American literature and culture classes, I receive stunned silence or nervous laughs. The Sanderson...
New report shows Wisconsin residents flocked to state parks seeking a sanctuary from the Pandemic
The number of people turning to the state’s parks, hunting and fishing amid the COVID-19 pandemic grew significantly in 2020 according to new research from the non-partisan Wisconsin Policy Forum. A new report titled Take It Outside: Pandemic Spurs Outdoor...
Why the National Guard remains deployed to protect the Capitol from domestic extremists
By Shannon M. Smith, Associate Professor of History, College of Saint Benedict & Saint John’s University The Pentagon may soon approve leaving some troops deployed to protect the U.S. Capitol from domestic extremist threats, but at a sizable reduction from...
Current laws prevent domestic terrorists from being designated and prosecuted like foreign extremists
In the days leading up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the FBI received intelligence that extremists were planning violence as lawmakers gathered in Washington to certify the electoral victory of President-elect Joe Biden. FBI officials managed to dissuade people...
Senator Tammy Baldwin introduces bipartisan legislation for Veterans exposed to toxic military base
Legislation introduced on February 25 would require the Veterans Administration to assume responsibility for treating U.S. service members who became ill after being exposed to cancer-causing toxic materials nearly 20 years ago at a former Soviet air base in...
Stranded far from home: Deported U.S. Veterans urge the Biden administration to repatriate them
By Jennifer Martinez-Medina, PhD Candidate/Political Science Instructor, Portland State University Ivan Ocon thought he would be headed back to civilian life as a U.S. citizen after serving the U.S. Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Ocon, who was born in...
Senator Ron Johnson forces reading of the 628-page coronavirus relief bill in cynical stunt to delay vote
Senator Bernie Sanders accused Senate Republicans on March 4 of showing “contempt” for working class Americans after Senator Ron Johnson delayed a vote on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill by forcing Senate floor staff to...
Security experts warn that chronic domestic terror problems continue to simmer
By Luis De la Calle, Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and Associate Professor in Political Science, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas After President Joe Biden took office on January 20, 2021 without any...
The American Empire: Destabilizing countries and wrecking their economies under the guise of liberty
Instead of opening doors for American big business or supporting America’s diplomatic position in the world, the U.S. war machine has become a bull in the global china shop, wielding purely destructive power to destabilize countries and wreck their economies. In 2004,...
Partisan paralysis has torn Wisconsin’s safety net and left the jobless struggling to survive the pandemic
Brandon Cacek filed for unemployment insurance in mid-March last year after losing his substitute teaching job due to the pandemic. He is still waiting for that crucial aid 11 months later. “I keep leaving out hope that I’m going to get some kind of assistance...
FDR’s principal intention for a “living wage” was to protect workers from abuse by employers
By Felix Koenig, Assistant Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University The US$1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill that the House of Representatives passed included a gradual increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. While its chances in the...
Is the pandemic here to stay? How viral mutations are pushing SARS-CoV-2 into becoming endemic
By Grace C. Roberts, Research Fellow in Virology, Queen’s University Belfast Endemic viruses are those that have constant presence within a geographical area. Such viruses are all around us, though they vary by location. Examples in Europe and North America...
