Response to refugee crisis aims to sustain displaced Ukrainians in host communities for next few years
By Jose J. Padilla, Research Associate Professor, Old Dominion University; and Erika Frydenlund, Research Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University More than 2 million Ukrainians, almost all women and children, have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24,...
Fears of global food crisis: Putin’s assault on Ukraine has disrupted the output of a major “breadbasket”
As Russia intensifies its war on Ukraine, agricultural output from one of the world’s most productive growing regions has ground to a halt, causing the price of key food staples and fertilizer to approach record levels and sparking fears of worsening global...
Congress passes bill after almost a century of effort that finally makes lynching a federal hate crime
The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was first introduced in 1918 in the 65th United States Congress by Representative Leonidas C. Dyer with the intention to establish lynching as a federal crime. Congress has given final approval to legislation that for the first time would...
Sevgil Musaieva: The challenges of reporting from the frontlines of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
Twice a day, Sevgil Musaieva, chief editor at Kyiv-based independent news site Ukrayinska Pravda, checks in with her staff, now scattered around the country for security reasons as they report amid Russian missile and rocket attacks. Musaieva knows the high stakes...
Where families once lived: War through the eyes of Ukrainians in the wasteland of Kharkiv
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russians have been bombing the second largest Ukrainian city, Kharkiv. Apparently, the Russian authorities were counting on the rapid conquest of a city close to the Russian border. However, Kharkiv...
Grief and Solidarity: Kyiv’s suburbs transformed from thriving community to ghost town in two weeks
As I write these lines in Kyiv, my window panes are shaking to the booms of air defense guns intercepting Russian aircraft over the city. On March 7, the Ukrainian military reported two airplanes had been downed. What happened to the city still feels like an old...
A sympathy for Putin: When the rightwing’s “Culture War” spills into an actual “War” war
America is divided. That is not news. But the authoritarian ruler in the Kremlin deciding to invade a democratic neighbor – that is the type of international crisis that traditionally might have inspired some closing of the ranks: set differences aside, let domestic...
A TikTok War: How selfie videos inside Ukraine are winning the global PR battle against Putin
By Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University “Russian President Vladimir Putin is locked in a vicious struggle not only to subjugate Ukraine, but also to keep his own citizens united in support of Kremlin policy. But as...
A Trump-Putin Network: It is time to confront the stunning number of Republicans with deep Kremlin ties
In 2014, the Putin regime invaded Ukraine’s Crimea. In 2016, the same regime invaded the United States. The former took place as a conventional military operation; the latter was a spectacular case of cyberwarfare, including disinformation that it was happening at all...
Support for Ukraine: A growing number of Milwaukee companies have halted their business in Russia
Numerous Wisconsin companies have closed their international facilities in Ukraine and Russia as the war and violence in Ukraine escalates. The state’s largest companies including SC Johnson, Johnson Controls and Harley-Davidson — are joining some of the...
Echoes of the Soviet collapse: Why Russia may find itself in an economic catastrophe similar to 1991
Russia appears to be on the verge of an economic collapse without parallel in its post-World War II history. The United States and European Union’s decision to sanction Russia’s central bank on February 28 has essentially severed the spinal cord of the country’s...
A disruption of systems: Critical infrastructures are vulnerable to cyberattacks that put our safety at risk
By Jason Jaskolka, Assistant Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University What would happen if you could no longer use the technological systems that you rely on every day? I am not talking about your smart phone or laptop computer, but all those...
