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The U.S. military is working to combat a different kind of enemy this year, a significant decline in the number of new recruits signing up for service. The Wisconsin Army National Guard’s goal for recruitment was about 1,000 new recruits this year. But Lt. Col....

By Anne Marshall, Associate Professor of History, Mississippi State University Tucked away in an amendment to the FY2023 U.S. defense authorization bill is a rare instance of congressional bipartisanship and a tribute to President Ulysses S. Grant. If approved, the...

By Matthew Woodruff, Instructor of Human Immunology, Emory University For almost three years, scientists have raced to understand the immune responses in patients who develop severe COVID-19, with an enormous effort aimed at defining where healthy immunity ends and...

By Shuang-Ye Wu, Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton The year 2022 will be remembered across the U.S. for its devastating flooding and storms, and also for its extreme heat waves and droughts. By October, the U.S. had already seen...

Congressional lawmakers have authorized another heavy icebreaker on the Great Lakes as part of the $858 billion defense bill to be approved by President Joe Biden. Wisconsin lawmakers, including Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and Republican U.S. Representative...

By Hajar Yazdiha, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is just the latest conservative lawmaker to misuse the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to judge a person on character and not race. In the...

By Jonathan Este, Associate Editor, International Affairs Editor Bitter fighting continues in the salt-mining town of Soledar, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. And depending on who is doing the reporting, either Russia is poised to take Soledar any time now or...

Ben Wikler spent so much time poring over polls ahead of the midterm elections that it eventually became too much to bear. “I was throwing up with anxiety,” said Wikler, the chair of Wisconsin’s Democratic party. It was not merely out of concern, common to Democrats...

New York has Broadway, England has the London West End and now Wisconsin’s biggest city has its own theater district. After years of speculation about the future of a Milwaukee Theater District, it’s finally coming to fruition. The collective is part of a...

It has been an eventful time for players and fans, who watched in horror on January 9 as Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field and had to be given CPR before leaving the field in an ambulance. A few days later, those same players and fans have...