Unlearning Racism: Experiencing racial discrimination is not actually doing anything to combat it
The first time I learned about the history of race and racism in America was during my first year of college, when I read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book “Between the World and Me.” Before then, I had plenty of lessons on race, only none of them had ever happened...
Separate and Unequal: Despite decades of effort American schools remain far from racially integrated
By Pedro A. Noguera, Dean, USC Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California Nearly seven decades after the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the court’s declared goal of integrated education is...
With COVID no longer a major concern Wisconsin manufacturers feel cautious optimism about future
More than half of respondents to a survey of Wisconsin manufacturers said they expect to see increases in profits this year, according to the poll released on April 29. The Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership, or WMEP, carried out the survey last month, in...
Rewarding the Sedition Caucus: Why Big Oil is so happy to give GOP Insurrectionists campaign funding
Since the January 6 insurrection, six of the biggest fossil fuel companies in America have given nearly $700,000 to the campaign and leadership PACs of the Sedition Caucus, according to CREW’s ongoing tracking. They have also given more than $350,000 to the NRSC...
The deep roots of America’s racial wealth divide and why it exists by historical design
In the more than 150 years since the end of the Civil War, Black American wealth remains a fraction of that held by White Americans. Just after emancipation in 1865, African Americans owned 0.5% of national wealth. By 2019, that percentage had not risen above 2%. An...
Fracturing and Fragmenting: The role of social cohesion in America and our cost of losing it
As with climate change, inequality, and our other collective problems, solutions will entail confronting and reining in power, whether the power of wealth, of outsized political representation, or of social media companies. The United States is tumbling toward...
Surveillance Capitalism: Lack of online data privacy could be used against women seeking abortions
By Nora McDonald, Assistant Professor of Information Technology, University of Cincinnati When the draft of a Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked to the press, many of us who have been studying privacy for vulnerable individuals came to a...
Persistent Poverty: Our child welfare system is falling short of meeting needs due to overwhelming demand
By Astraea Augsberger, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Boston University; Mary Elizabeth Collins, Professor of Social Welfare Policy, Boston University Although government spending on the child welfare system totaled US$33 billion in 2018, the most recent year for...
Impact of COVID isolation: Health professionals see growing mental health crisis with Wisconsin children
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing more children to experience mental health crises that lead to emergency room visits in Wisconsin and other states, health professionals say. Children’s Wisconsin in Milwaukee created a grant-funded crisis response team in 2020....
Public accuses heavily armed Texas police of cowardice for doing nothing to stop Uvalde shootings
Turns out, tough Texans in Stetsons are not so tough. The excuses offered by police in Uvalde to excuse their cowardice only confirm their cowardice. Nineteen armed police stood in an elementary school hallway and did nothing for more than an hour while an armed...
Unless Wisconsin voters choose new legislators there is little hope of passing any gun safety measures
In the autumn of 2019, after an Assembly floor session that had already lasted more than seven hours, State Rep. Tyler August (R-Lake Geneva) gaveled open a special session called by Governor Tony Evers to take up two bills addressing gun violence — then immediately...
Maybe it is time to start doubting that the Democratic party can save America from rightwing machinations
When the floodwaters are at our shoulders, when the school boards require a fair hearing to be given to the Nazi position, when capitalism’s ecocide has Mad Max’d every temperate zone, depopulated every savannah, killed every polar bear and when war, disease and debt...
