Beyond Ukraine: How Putin wages war on the world from energy blackmail to threats of starvation
The Ukrainians have (again) done what nobody believed they could. They have (again) defeated the supposedly mighty Russia on the battlefield, shown up the underlying incompetence and moral rot of the Putin system. It took them just six days to take back whole swaths...
A show of weakness: Partial military mobilization reveals Putin’s desperation and perhaps his last stand
By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham; and Tatyana Malyarenko, Professor of International Relations, National University Odesa Law Academy Declaring a partial mobilization and threatening the use of “lots of Russian weapons” in...
Illegal Annexation: Putin escalates war to dangerous new phase as ploy to avoid accepting defeat
By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato A lot has changed since world leaders last met in person at the United Nations General Assembly: a global pandemic, a looming food crisis, economic stress, climate disasters – and the Russian invasion of...
Leading from behind: Why Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is now more than a proxy war for the United States
Although Washington insists that it is not interested in a direct military conflict with Moscow, the latter claims that the United States is, in fact, directly involved. On September 8, Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared in Kyiv on an unannounced visit. He...
A “broken” shared revenue system: Mayor Johnson seeks state aid for Milwaukee’s proposed $1.7B budget
Milwaukee’s mayor says the state’s “broken” shared revenue program is hamstringing the city’s finances and forcing cuts to police, fire and library services. Mayor Cavalier Johnson unveiled his first proposed budget, totaling $1.7...
Tilting toward a recession: The risks of a domestic economy in an interconnected global world
By D. Brian Blank, Assistant Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University The U.S. Federal Reserve holds inordinate sway over the world’s economies. Yet it acts, in some ways, like they do not really matter. Its power is primarily because of the dominance of the...
Federal judge overturns ruling to ensure Wisconsin voters with disabilities get assistance to cast a ballot
A federal judge on August 31 blocked a ruling that would have prevented Wisconsin voters with disabilities from getting assistance when casting a ballot. The ruling will allow voters with disabilities to have another person return their absentee ballots for them. In...
Voluntary Motherhood: When suffragists embraced a right to reject unwanted sex for fear of pregnancy
By Lauren Thompson, Assistant Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies, Kennesaw State University The history of abortion in the U.S. guided some of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s arguments in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision....
Wisconsin and beyond: Handful of state candidates supporting Trump’s “Big Lie” likely to tilt 2024 election
Republican candidates who claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump have been nominated for governor in four critical swing states, raising concerns that if elected they could try to sway election results in 2024 and beyond. In Arizona, Pennsylvania,...
Abortion Care: Clinics in neighboring states team up to offer reproductive health services to Wisconsinites
Around two days a week, Natalee Hartwig leaves her home in Madison, Wisconsin, before her son wakes up to travel across the border into Illinois. “Luckily it’s summer,” said Hartwig, a nurse midwife at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. “For now, he can sleep in. But...
Therapeutic Abortions: Wisconsin physicians remain unclear about ambiguous wording of 173-year-old ban
Physicians criticize the law as outdated, vague and severe. Health systems are scrambling to guide them on how to stay out of criminal trouble. The patient sat in Dr. Shefaali Sharma’s exam room, distraught. She was pregnant with her third child. Just weeks earlier,...
Support for abortion: A time before Southern Baptists embraced governmental control of a woman’s body
By Name Here, Academic title and school goes in this space in italic The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and often referred to as the “bellwether for conservative Christianity,” has long voiced opposition to...
