Wisconsin postal workers hope new Federal law will prevent further cuts to USPS services across state
Postal workers in Wisconsin are optimistic that a new law overhauling the U.S. Postal Service and injecting more than $100 billion into the service will help put an end to years of instability in the service. A bipartisan bill to address the financially strapped...
The Red Ball Express: Lessons on logistics from a forgotten story of Black soldiers in World War II
By Matthew Delmont, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, Dartmouth College General Dwight D. Eisenhower had a problem. In June 1944, Allied forces had landed on Normandy Beach in France and were moving east toward Nazi Germany at a clip of sometimes...
Early days of war in Irpin: A look back at when families fled the Kyiv area ahead of the Russian invasion
A recap of the situation in Ukraine, where millions of children and their families have been uprooted from their homes. The war in Ukraine has devastated lives. Across the country, millions of families have been forced to leave their homes, fleeing missiles and air...
Pushing Putin’s Lies: Why Russia deploys misdirection as more horrific evidence of its massacres are uncovered
By Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University The appalling crimes against humanity allegedly committed by Russian soldiers against Ukrainians are a sobering reminder that the most brutal behavior can be cynically...
Officials warn that Putin may use support for Ukraine as pretext to further interfere in American politics
Vladimir Putin may use the Biden administration’s support for Ukraine as a pretext to order a new campaign to interfere in American politics, US intelligence officials have assessed. Intelligence agencies have not found any evidence Putin has authorized measures like...
Bringing Jesus to the Communist world: Why American Evangelicals cannot fully abandon their Kremlin ally
By Melani McAlister, Professor of American Studies and International Affairs, George Washington University In February 2022, evangelical leader Franklin Graham called on his followers to pray for Vladimir Putin. His tweet acknowledged that it might seem a “strange...
Building blocks for war: How Putin used 14 years of lies and disinformation to justify a Ukraine invasion
By Juris Pupcenoks, Associate Professor of Political Science, Marist College; and Graig Klein, Assistant Professor of Terrorism & Political Violence, Leiden University As the invasion of Ukraine began in late February 2022, President Vladimir Putin offered several...
Milwaukee’s Jewish community offers vital aid for Ukrainian refugees in response to humanitarian crisis
The Jewish community in Milwaukee has deep and long connections to the Jewish population in Ukraine. And for Milwaukeeans involved in relief efforts at the Ukrainian border, recent experiences of assisting refugees and evacuating Holocaust survivors from Ukraine have...
Russia’s human shield narrative: The lies Putin invokes to justify the slaying of innocent civilians
Since Russia’s invasion began in late February 2022, universities, schools, theaters, hospitals, and many other civilian sites in Ukraine have been destroyed by Russian shelling and more than four million people have so far fled the country. Faced with the devastating...
Why journalists were targeted by Russian forces to conceal crimes of genocide against Ukrainian people
Mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boichenko, said in a recent interview that Russia was blocking international organizations from entering Mariupol to prevent them from seeing what had become of the city. On April 4, President Volodymyr Zelensky described the horrific...
When something feels right: The science behind the authenticity of discovering your true self
By Matthew Baldwin, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Florida After following a white rabbit down a hole in the ground and changing sizes several times, Alice finds herself wondering “Who in the world am I?” This scene, from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s...
The media has a duty to report that a political party openly endorses using violence to overturn elections
If people avidly follow the news, they probably pick up a lot of bits about trivial events. But did they also hear former President Trump admit that he had intended to have Mike Pence overturn the 2020 election? In a statement, Trump asserted that Pence had the power...
