Suffering and Chaos: When attacks on Constitutional protections comes from a Right-Wing Supreme Court
The draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization infamously decides that pregnant females’ 49-year-old right to obtain an abortion no longer will be constitutionally protected. Writing for the five-justice majority, Justice Samuel Alito offers two...
Beyond 2020 Election: Why Wisconsin Republicans use false claims to continue their attack on democracy
A federal judge found that former President Donald Trump and attorney John Eastman engaged in “a coup in search of a legal theory” on March 28. The court concluded that, more likely than not, their efforts to overturn the presidential election were federal...
A Day of Remembrance: The darkness of “Never Again” could not last a century before it repeated in Ukraine
Can spring be black and white? Is there eternal February? Are golden words devalued? Unfortunately, Ukraine knows the answers to all these questions. Unfortunately, the answers are “yes.” Every year on May 8, together with the entire civilized world, we honor everyone...
Trump’s Other Lie: Why Putin fell just one presidential election short of a complete success in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin planned to conquer Ukraine by May 9, Russia’s annual “Victory Day” celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany. Instead, he failed miserably and is a global pariah. NATO and U.S. support for Ukraine made all the difference. But consider...
How Afghan evacuees have enriched Wisconsin’s workforce despite barriers for immigrant labor
Ali Akbar Gholami arrived in the United States last September with little more than his work ID. He had no time to gather much else as the Taliban took over the Afghanistan capital of Kabul and escalated a humanitarian crisis, prompting the U.S. to airlift him and...
A Propaganda Coup: Sources report that Putin is expected to annex separatist proxy states in Ukraine
The United States says it has “highly credible” intelligence reports that Russia is planning to annex two Ukrainian regions and declare a third “people’s republic” in the southeast. Moscow may annex the two existing proxy states – the self-described people’s republics...
Sociology of Evil: Why Ukraine’s new language of war uses Tolkien’s metaphor to express Russian brutality
I am a big fan of J.R.R. Tolkien and his work. This admiration spans for almost a quarter of a century, however, this dedication is nothing more than a hobby without any academic aspirations. So when the Russians were starting to be called orcs after the invasion, a...
Ukraine’s fight for democracy gets needed support after Congress revives WWII-era lend-lease program
The United States Congress has passed lend-lease legislation that will make it easier to export military equipment to Ukraine, reviving a World War II-era US weapons financing program. The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly backed the “Ukraine Democracy...
Breadcrumbs from a breadbasket: How war in Ukraine created a perfect storm for global food scarcity
By Daniel Maxwell, Henry J. Leir Professor in Food Security, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has produced a terrible humanitarian crisis in eastern Europe. It also is worsening conditions for other...
Leaked plan to overturn Roe v. Wade revives question of enforcing Wisconsin’s 173-year-old abortion ban
A 173-year-old abortion ban in Wisconsin could go back into effect as early as this summer if a draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court takes effect, but questions over the ban’s enforceability are already looming. The ban, approved by the state Legislature in 1849,...
Why the economy and well-being of women will face irreparable harm when access to abortion is limited
By Michele Gilman, Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore A leaked draft suggests the Supreme Court is ready to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that gave women the right to terminate a pregnancy. But reproductive health is not just about abortion,...
Milwaukee earns environmental praise for initiative to eliminate combined sewer overflows by 2035
Joel Brammeier likes to think of water infrastructure as the “circulatory system of a thriving community.” It is buried and unseen but so vital and interwoven to a functioning body. But there are consequences when that system reaches its limits. Brammeier,...
