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January

Race, Ethnicity, and Age: Why employers are forced to be more flexible as workplace diversity grows

January 27, 2023 | Featured, Syndicated |
Joy of Nature: After generations of racial exclusion Black Americans are re-embracing the Great Outdoors

January 27, 2023 | Syndicated |
Stalled Funding: Wisconsin explores regional services as fix for struggling emergency mental health system

January 27, 2023 | Featured, Syndicated |
Reasons for despair: Why the new “Great Depression” comes from our profound sense of political dread

January 26, 2023 | Featured, John Pavlovitz |
The 2022 election cycle saw cracks in Black voter support for Democratic candidates

January 26, 2023 | Newswire |
What America Denies: The racial myths and fabrications that Whiteness tells itself

January 26, 2023 | Syndicated |
Why President Biden should follow President Truman’s courage and revive a Berlin-style Airlift for Ukraine

January 25, 2023 | Featured, Thom Hartmann, Ukraine |
Winter of Discontent: Poor performance and low morale of Russian soldiers expected to worsen

January 25, 2023 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Scrutiny of Orthodox Churches more than tug-of-war for spiritual independence of the Ukrainian soul

January 25, 2023 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Weaponized Education: Ukraine schools remain a key battleground in the fight for the nation’s future

January 24, 2023 | Featured, Syndicated, Ukraine |
Wartime Ukraine reclaims national identity with surge to erase Colonial Russian past from public spaces

January 24, 2023 | Newswire, Ukraine |
A fallen fiend: Why the USSR imploded under the unviable ideology of its depravity and terror

January 24, 2023 | Newswire |
No longer just pawns: How the war in Ukraine is shifting the balance of power to Eastern Europe

January 23, 2023 | Featured, Syndicated, Ukraine |
The Winter Campaign: Putin has been weaponizing energy for years and has no incentive to stop now

January 23, 2023 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Over dependence on Russian oil and gas has accelerated a global swing to clean energy

January 23, 2023 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Monsters of American Capitalism: Trump, Bankman-Fried, and Musk show how greed is a public danger

January 22, 2023 | Robert Reich |
Treasure sleuths piece together how pirates hid from their crimes in Colonial America with impunity

January 22, 2023 | Newswire |
Ownership of ancient artifacts debated as Egyptians seek return of Rosetta Stone from British Museum

January 22, 2023 | Newswire |
Concerns over sexual assault and pandemic response among factors causing military recruitment decline

January 21, 2023 | Syndicated |
Proposed posthumous promotion of Ulysses S. Grant sheds new light on his fight for equal rights

January 21, 2023 | Syndicated |
Ukrainian soldiers recover at rehabilitation center in Kharkiv before returning to front lines

January 21, 2023 | Newswire, Ukraine |
What madness looks like: Russia continues to escalate onslaught with new levels of death and devastation

January 20, 2023 | Featured, Newswire, Ukraine |
Cyberattacks from Russia target online auction of Banksy art selling to raise money for Ukraine relief

January 20, 2023 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
America’s spy network lags behind rivals in seizing on intelligence data hiding in plain sight

January 20, 2023 | Newswire |
Child care disruptions continue even as Americans try to move on from COVID

January 19, 2023 | Featured, Newswire |
Scientists are closer to understanding how immune dysfunctions can contribute to “long COVID”

January 19, 2023 | Syndicated |
COVID-19 surge in China increases likelihood of new mutant virus as elderly resist vaccinations

January 19, 2023 | COVID-19, Newswire |
Profit from lies: How Big Oil’s acceleration of global warming has made winter cold more extreme

January 18, 2023 | Featured, Thom Hartmann |
A year of disasters: Climate catastrophes are causing billions in damages with no relief in sight

January 18, 2023 | Syndicated |
Farmers of color file class-action lawsuit against federal government for promised financial aid

January 18, 2023 | Newswire |
Atmospheric carbon might make Great Lakes more acidic and inhospitable for some fish and plants

January 17, 2023 | Featured, Newswire |
Authorization by Congress of a new heavy icebreaker seen as a boost for winter shipping on Great Lakes

January 17, 2023 | Syndicated |
The New Abnormal: Catastrophic weather disasters are considered tame after frequency of yearly onslaught

January 17, 2023 | Newswire |
Something to Say: Legacy of MLK honored with program to help Milwaukee families talk about racism

January 16, 2023 | Articles, Featured |
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday features tributes, commitments, and memorials to elevate race equity

January 16, 2023 | Newswire |
Weaponizing our bigoted past: How the distortion of MLK‘s words enables more racial division

January 16, 2023 | Syndicated |
BLM foundation launches student solidarity fund to provide college aid as loan forgiveness stalls

January 16, 2023 | Newswire |
Terror Tactics: Russia uses $1M supersonic anti-ship missile to attack random apartments in Dnipro

January 15, 2023 | Newswire |
The cost of war in Ukraine is being paid by loving fathers and their injured sons

January 15, 2023 | Newswire |
What the battles of Soledar and Bakhmut reveal about the likely next phase of war in Ukraine

January 15, 2023 | Syndicated |
Many Americans will qualify for a 2023 tax credit of up to $7,500 for buying an electric vehicle

January 15, 2023 | Featured, Newswire |
Highway safety study finds more than half of car crash victims had drugs or alcohol in their system

January 15, 2023 | Newswire |
Lingering health impact from COVID pandemic prompts Federal extension of Real ID deadline

January 15, 2023 | COVID-19, Newswire |
Commercial freight routes face new restrictions as EPA tightens nitrogen oxide limits on heavy trucks

January 14, 2023 | Featured, Newswire |
U.S. Postal Service pledges transition to a nationwide all-electric delivery fleet beginning in 2026

January 14, 2023 | Newswire |
Most small SUVs flunked the insurance industry’s updated frontal crash tests

January 14, 2023 | Newswire |
Next political fight around the corner as Federal spending approaches debt ceiling

January 13, 2023 | Featured, Newswire |
Easing of inflation gives rise to optimism that American economy can avoid a recession

January 13, 2023 | Newswire |
GOP disfunction drives unity among Democrats in the often-divided environment of Washington politics

January 13, 2023 | Newswire |
Wisconsin Republicans again seek to dictate human rights with push to undo conversion therapy ban

January 12, 2023 | Newswire |
Fake elector for Trump gloats over Wisconsin GOP’s success of suppressing minority voters in Milwaukee

January 12, 2023 | Featured, Newswire |
The “red wave” collapsed: How Wisconsin Democrats fought back in the most gerrymandered state

January 12, 2023 | Syndicated |
House Republicans launch long-promised political witch-hunt on Biden family

January 12, 2023 | Newswire |
Census Bureau makes biggest modification in decades to how it defines meaning of “urban” America

January 11, 2023 | Featured, Newswire |
Candidates for partisan-backed Wisconsin Supreme Court say party politics will have no influence

January 11, 2023 | Newswire |
Section 1326: Why the immigration fight is fueled by a 1920s law based on anti-Latino racism

January 11, 2023 | Newswire |
World-renowned art duo HYBYCOZO brings “Lightfield” sculptures to Milwaukee for immersive experiences

January 10, 2023 | Curated, Featured |
Collective behind Milwaukee Theater District aims to help entertainment industry recover from pandemic

January 10, 2023 | Syndicated |
Last Sherlock Holmes book enters public domain with massive cache of vintage creative works in 2023

January 10, 2023 | Newswire |
Aaron Rodgers has entire postseason to ponder his future after playoff hopes crushed by Packers loss

January 9, 2023 | Newswire |
Authoritarian Learning: Insurrection by Brazil’s far-right shows Trump taught world how to do January 6

January 9, 2023 | Heather Richardson |
President Lula vows to punish pro-Bolsonaro supporters for January 8 attack on Brazil’s Congress

January 9, 2023 | Newswire |
How America’s racial hate empowers a vast network of fixers to prey upon migrants crossing from Mexico

January 9, 2023 | Featured, Newswire |
Border Bishop: Milwaukee-native takes lead role in El Paso’s Catholic migrant ministry

January 9, 2023 | Newswire |
Caring for the vulnerable: Medical volunteers help traumatized assault survivors at Migrant shelters

January 9, 2023 | Newswire |
Republicans stoke racism and anti-immigration fears as President Joe Biden inspects border with Mexico

January 9, 2023 | Newswire |
Power entirely for its own sake: Where begging and pleading to become House Speaker leaves the nation

January 8, 2023 | Heather Richardson |
President Joe Biden stops in El Paso on way to Mexico City for firsthand look at Southern border situation

January 8, 2023 | Newswire |
Win or go home: Green Bay Packers are just one win away from clinching Super Bowl playoff spot

January 8, 2023 | Syndicated |
Wanting an old job back: How a Trump presidential bid could follow Roosevelt’s failed Bull Moose campaign

January 8, 2023 | Syndicated |
Why the conservative base of Republican voters has yet to wake up to its oppression by Republican politicians

January 8, 2023 | Thom Hartmann |
Faith leaders say report by January 6 Committee minimizes central role of Christian Nationalism

January 8, 2023 | Syndicated |
Clancy and Madison: Two freshman Legislators from Milwaukee revive Wisconsin’s dormant Socialist Caucus

January 8, 2023 | Newswire |
The Four Freedoms: Lessons from the FDR speech that articulated a powerful vision for a world

January 7, 2023 | Heather Richardson |
Pyrrhic Victory: McCarthy capitulates to MAGA faction to become House Speaker in turbulent 15th vote

January 7, 2023 | Newswire |
Without veto-proof majority GOP Lawmakers scheme to use voters to strip Governor Evers of executive powers

January 7, 2023 | Newswire |
A growing fear in the new year of more violence as Anti-LGBTQ hate thrives on social media

January 7, 2023 | Newswire |
More LGBTQ students are “walking a tightrope” over policy backlashes at Christian colleges

January 7, 2023 | Newswire |
The Queer family farm: LGBTQ farmers find fertile ground in Wisconsin despite social obstacles

January 7, 2023 | Syndicated |
Failure to Launch: Trump rings in 2023 against heavy headwinds threatening his third White House run

January 6, 2023 | Newswire |
Documents show Senator Ron Johnson pushed for GOP-controlled Legislature to pick Trump’s electors

January 6, 2023 | Newswire |
Evidence suggest that “Anti-McCarthy Crowd” are aligned with Vladimir Putin’s mission to ruin America

January 6, 2023 | Thom Hartmann |
Pardeep Kaleka: Why American regret about January 6th is both healthy and the path forward

January 6, 2023 | Columns, Featured, Pardeep Kaleka |
The Big Lie: Key takeaways from the Congressional January 6 report that detailed Trump’s attempted coup

January 6, 2023 | Newswire |
Failed Speaker Bid: Two years after deadly insurrection finds Congress again paralyzed on January 6

January 6, 2023 | Newswire |
Governor Tony Evers meets with Mayors of Wisconsin’s five largest cities to discuss changes in local funding

January 5, 2023 | Newswire |
Trump’s taxes: Release of long-sought returns sheds a light on foreign influence and possible fraud

January 5, 2023 | Newswire |
Russia’s brutal war and Iran’s internal turmoil limited their ability to interfere in midterm elections

January 5, 2023 | Newswire |
Destructive Politics: House Speaker chaos shows GOP has ability to obstruct but not to actually govern

January 5, 2023 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
Republican Party in disarray for second day as radical wing rejects McCarthy as House Speaker

January 5, 2023 | Newswire |
Georgia vote for Democrats gives Vice President Kamala Harris reprieve as Senate tiebreaker

January 5, 2023 | Newswire |
New abortion law faces threat of veto by Governor Evers as Wisconsin GOP split over changing to ban

January 4, 2023 | Newswire |
An ugly enforcement: Wisconsin’s fetal protection law allows detention of pregnant women for alcohol use

January 4, 2023 | Syndicated |
Senator Baldwin’s proposed Federal travel funding for abortion seekers faces a hostile new Congress

January 4, 2023 | Syndicated |
Reggie Jackson: What my stroke taught me about health and relationships

January 4, 2023 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Recent mergers of major hospitals in Wisconsin will impact about 8.5M patients in state and beyond

January 4, 2023 | Syndicated |
What is MyPlate? Why so few families are aware of or pay attention to the federal nutrition guide

January 4, 2023 | Newswire |
Inauguration 2023: Tony Evers sworn in for Second Term as 46th Governor of Wisconsin at State Capitol

January 3, 2023 | Newswire |
Governor Evers begins second term as GOP lawmakers refuse to confirm 180 appointees from his first term

January 3, 2023 | Syndicated |
New Congress imperiled at its start as Kevin McCarthy suffers two historic defeats to become House Speaker

January 3, 2023 | Newswire |
Rising COVID-19 related hospitalizations point to increased health risks for seniors through winter

January 3, 2023 | COVID-19, Featured, Newswire |
Reducing Transmission: Masks remain a tried-and-true way to stay healthy as viral infections skyrocket

January 3, 2023 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Stick to the science: Dr. Anthony Fauci offers parting advice after five decades of public service

January 3, 2023 | COVID-19, Newswire |
The Diary of Anya Verkhovskaya: Going to war in Ukraine without ever leaving her office in Milwaukee

January 2, 2023 | Articles, Ukraine |
Fighting War Fatigue: Volunteer network continues saving lives in Ukraine as public donations dry up

January 2, 2023 | Articles, Ukraine |
Remembering 2022 as the year democracies pushed back against authoritarians and exposed their weakness

January 2, 2023 | Heather Richardson |
World leaders thanked for their support of Ukraine in billboard series by the “Brave Society” of Irpin

January 2, 2023 | Articles, Ukraine |
A missile cemetery: Where spent Russian ordinance used to terrorize eastern Ukraine is stored as evidence

January 2, 2023 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Compulsory Christianity: The danger of professed Christians who have no real interest in Jesus

January 1, 2023 | John Pavlovitz |
Global Anglican Church faces growing friction among provinces over same-sex marriage

January 1, 2023 | Newswire |
Pauli Murray: The “Jane Crow” Feminist and Episcopal saint on the front line for racial justice

January 1, 2023 | Syndicated |

December

Lola Vaganova: A journey from Izium to Milwaukee in the footsteps of an ancestor who also fled a war

December 31, 2022 | Featured, Photos, Profiles, Ukraine |
Year In Review 2022: Influences over a lifetime from Thich Nhat Hanh to Gilligan’s Island

December 31, 2022 | Articles, Featured, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: Celebrating Milwaukee in photos after a long stretch of social distancing

December 31, 2022 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: The enduring spirit of the Milwaukee community and its many voices

December 31, 2022 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: First-hand reports from the early days of war in Ukraine

December 30, 2022 | Articles, Featured, Ukraine, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: Milwaukee stands in solidarity with Ukraine against Russia’s invasion

December 30, 2022 | Articles, Ukraine, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: The humanitarian crisis faced by Milwaukee’s Sister City of Irpin

December 30, 2022 | Articles, Ukraine, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: The Hispanic community’s growing political clout reaches the border

December 29, 2022 | Articles, Featured, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: From bodily autonomy over COVID to State regulation of every vagina

December 29, 2022 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: Election lies continue deployment as weaponized rhetoric against voters

December 29, 2022 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: Cavalier Johnson’s first year as first elected Black Mayor of Milwaukee

December 28, 2022 | Articles, Featured, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: Honoring the aging population of Milwaukee veterans

December 28, 2022 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: COVID-19 retains its grip as the public experiences pandemic amnesia

December 28, 2022 | Articles, COVID-19, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: Grasping for democracy against the rising flood of one-party rule

December 27, 2022 | Articles, Featured, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: The danger of self-avowed Christians who have no interest in Jesus

December 27, 2022 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: Profiting from the “Culture War” that subsidizes Corporate Socialism

December 27, 2022 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: The ugly path from hateful speech to systemic violence

December 26, 2022 | Articles, Featured, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: Whitewashing history and a racial reckoning that never was

December 26, 2022 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2022: When a poisoned political ideology resembles a modern-day Confederacy

December 26, 2022 | Articles, Year In Review |
A War by any other name: Covering America’s Cultural Revolution from the streets of Milwaukee

December 25, 2022 | Articles |
A look down: Enjoying the Zen of the natural world from a collection of drone images

December 25, 2022 | Editorial |
On and off the field: A look at some of the most memorable sports moments of 2022

December 25, 2022 | Newswire |
Being done with church: When people reach the limit of what they can tolerate in their house of worship

December 25, 2022 | John Pavlovitz |
A breach of faith: Understanding the complex relationship between religion, identity, and trauma

December 25, 2022 | Syndicated |
Pew survey reveals the more religious Americans are the less worried they feel about climate change

December 25, 2022 | Newswire |
Pope Francis rebukes greedy consumerism at the expense of the vulnerable in Christmas Eve homily

December 25, 2022 | Newswire |
The 117th Congress: Born in the chaos after January 6 and concludes with historic legislative achievements

December 24, 2022 | Newswire |
Congress approves overhaul of election certification rules in response to Trump’s January 6 manipulations

December 24, 2022 | Newswire |
White Victimhood: One small town in Wisconsin shows how fringe fears have become mainstream

December 24, 2022 | Newswire |
Merriam-Webster picks “gaslighting” as word of the year for 2022 due to popularity in political trolling

December 24, 2022 | Newswire |
Putin’s weaponization of winter leaves a Christmas in Ukraine without its traditional holiday glow

December 24, 2022 | Featured, Newswire, Ukraine |
Occupation Billboards: Russia’s propaganda war has been waged in tandem with the battlefield brutality

December 24, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Culture as a target: Why Russian attacks specifically aim to erase Ukrainian identity

December 24, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Peace and PTSD: Ukraine is already working to heal the mental wounds of its soldiers

December 24, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
January 6 committee’s report asserts Trump criminally engaged in conspiracy to overturn 2020 election

December 23, 2022 | Newswire |
Discouraging mischief: Congress aims to close off exploits of Electoral Count with bipartisan solutions

December 23, 2022 | Syndicated |
TSA raising fines after finding record number of guns on passengers at checkpoints and in carry-ons

December 23, 2022 | Newswire |
Two Santas strategy: Why Republicans use Saint Nicholas then Scrooge to shift economic messages

December 23, 2022 | Featured, Thom Hartmann |
A yuletide assault: The real War on Christmas has been waged by the Religious Right for years

December 23, 2022 | John Pavlovitz |
The Christmas phenomenon: From pagan tradition to a commercialized American holiday

December 23, 2022 | Syndicated |
January 6 panel prepares to unveil final report on Trump’s criminal involvement in violent insurrection

December 22, 2022 | Newswire |
The media’s blind spot: Why blatant efforts to suppress voter participation has been mostly ignored

December 22, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
House Republicans already preparing an onslaught of political investigations for new session

December 22, 2022 | Newswire |
President Zelenskyy thanks America for making Ukraine stronger to defend against Russia’s tyranny

December 22, 2022 | Featured, Newswire, Ukraine |
Ukrainians have demonstrated for three hundred days that a free democracy is worth the investment to save

December 22, 2022 | Heather Richardson, Ukraine |
Months in the making: An elaborate plan for President Zelensky’s daring wartime trip to Washington

December 22, 2022 | Newswire |
President Zelenskyy’s visit is a reminder of America’s moral and legal obligation to defend Ukraine

December 21, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
2022 Notebook: Journalists share experiences of reporting on the front lines as Russia invades Ukraine

December 21, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Months after doctors escaped from occupied Mariupol they reassembled to open a hospital in Kyiv

December 21, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
A battle of attrition: Stalemate in Ukraine sets stage for possible winter escalation

December 21, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Ukrainian-Americans responds to Russia’s invasion with book of poetry that shares both grief and hope

December 21, 2022 | Featured, Photos, Ukraine |
Lola Vaganova: Poems written in Ukrainian bomb shelter offer a powerful witness of war to Milwaukee

December 21, 2022 | Articles, Ukraine |
Zemliachky: Volunteers fill unanticipated gaps in supply operations to equip Ukraine’s women soldiers

December 21, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Zelenskyy to meet Biden and address Congress today in first trip to Washington since Russia’s invasion began

December 21, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Diane Baima: A holiday season filled with thoughts of Milwaukee but with the trauma of war in Ukraine

December 20, 2022 | Articles, Ukraine |
“We are here to fix it,” How Ukraine utility crews adapt and overcome after Russia strikes on power grids

December 20, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Ukrainian youth choir sings in defiance of war with messages of hope and freedom

December 20, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Raze or repair? Future remains uncertain for Milwaukee’s iconic Mitchell Park Domes

December 20, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated |
Komatsu partners with Habitat ReStore to salvage reusable items from historic National Avenue Campus

December 20, 2022 | Curated |
Privacy algorithms used for cybersecurity at the heart of latest criticism of 2020 census data

December 20, 2022 | Newswire |
January 6 Panel completes investigation of violent insurrection with “roadmap to justice” for Trump

December 19, 2022 | Newswire |
Failed Stewardship: Final Congressional report on COVID-19 exposes Trump’s reckless pandemic response

December 19, 2022 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Renewed push for COVID boosters comes as data shows better protection against symptomatic infection

December 19, 2022 | COVID-19, Newswire |
The price of a free press: Deaths of journalists killed on the job increased 30% in 2022

December 19, 2022 | Featured, Newswire |
How conservative media reacted after discovering most early COVID deaths were people of color

December 19, 2022 | COVID-19, Thom Hartmann |
New data shows drug overdose deaths stopped rising but experts remain cautious about resumption

December 19, 2022 | Newswire |
Hoan Bridge illuminating as a menorah to “Shine a Light” on antisemitism this Hanukkah season

December 18, 2022 | Curated |
Ukraine celebrates the Jewish Festival of Lights in the darkness of Russia’s war against humanity

December 18, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Activists charge Republican gun culture and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric as direct cause of Club Q massacre

December 18, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
Disgraced former president turns into a cartoon grifter as his political career hangs in the balance

December 18, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
Christian Nationalism: The very people who ignore the teachings of Jesus also claim America’s faith ideology

December 18, 2022 | Syndicated |
A Final Goodbye: Recalling all the influential people who we lost in 2022

December 17, 2022 | Newswire |
Thousands of veterans have flooded VA with health claims since President Biden signed Toxic exposure law

December 17, 2022 | Syndicated |
Wisconsin election officials consider changes to military absentee voting after security flaw exposed

December 17, 2022 | Newswire |
Former capital of the Confederacy removes its last city-owned monument honoring the South’s rebellion

December 17, 2022 | Newswire |
UN committee moves one step closer to drafting a landmark treaty for ending global plastic pollution

December 16, 2022 | Newswire |
Wisconsin regulators approve utility rate hikes as customers face increasing costs from inflation

December 16, 2022 | Syndicated |
Support grows for oversight of how electric utilities plan to charge consumers for upgrades to power grid

December 16, 2022 | Syndicated |
I need ammunition not a ride: Zelenskyy’s quip and Trump’s conspiracy rant top 2022 notable quote list

December 16, 2022 | Featured, Newswire |
2022 was the year Russia brought the horrors of war back to Europe and threatened the world

December 16, 2022 | Newswire |
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the “Spirit of Ukraine” named by Time as 2022 Person of Year

December 16, 2022 | Newswire |
Federal agencies planning how to release more migrants when Trump-era Title 42 asylum limits end

December 15, 2022 | Newswire |
Dog whistles go full siren as “arbitrary and capricious” immigration restrictions set to expire

December 15, 2022 | Syndicated |
Jonathan Brostoff: An open letter to constituents of the 19th Assembly District after 8 years of state service

December 15, 2022 | Curated |
Why proposed development for new downtown soccer stadium should include pay guarantee for service jobs

December 15, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated |
The problem of work: Why the business model of capitalism is alienating American workers today

December 15, 2022 | Syndicated |
Janet Yellen and Lynn Malerba make history by becoming first female pair to sign U.S. currency

December 15, 2022 | Newswire |
Massive Keystone pipeline spill validates every safety concern for a disaster that Republicans dismissed

December 14, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
Wisconsin regulators get approval to begin new regulations for PFAS contamination in groundwater

December 14, 2022 | Newswire |
Liquidators of Chernobyl: Why December 14 honors the unnamed heroes who saved the world from radiation

December 14, 2022 | Curated |
Decade after Sandy Hook: Grief remains for Newtown’s lost generation as hope in a brighter future grows

December 14, 2022 | Featured, Newswire |
Stricter gun laws: After latest wave of mass shootings advocates renew push for assault weapons ban

December 14, 2022 | Newswire |
Biden administration restarts task force aimed at helping immigrants succeed in the United States

December 14, 2022 | Newswire |
Wisconsin’s 2022 midterm election sets record high in spending from outside special interest groups

December 13, 2022 | Newswire |
Election nonprofit renews grants in Wisconsin and other states where GOP lawmakers tried to ban it

December 13, 2022 | Newswire |
Why mainstream media remains mostly silent over the danger of Moore v. Harper to democracy

December 13, 2022 | Robert Reich |
From January 6 Committee to G7: Daily reminders that Democracy remains at risk both at home and abroad

December 13, 2022 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
Election Anxiety: While midterms were free of feared chaos voting experts are already looking to 2024

December 13, 2022 | Newswire |
President Joe Biden to sign bipartisan gay marriage bill into law at triumphant White House ceremony

December 13, 2022 | Newswire |
International donors race to supply generators and medical aid to hard-hit Ukraine ahead of winter’s grip

December 12, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Fighting for the future: How Belarusian volunteers in Ukraine are staking their claim on democracy

December 12, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
More stories emerge about how Ukrainians hid orphaned children from Russia’s deportation scheme

December 12, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Japan’s economic health stumbles from a shrinking birth rate and ballooning elderly population

December 12, 2022 | Featured, Newswire |
Demographic crisis: South Korea’s fertility rate continues to plummet as many stop having babies

December 12, 2022 | Newswire |
Anthropocene Engine: How the growing population of 8 billion humans transforms the planet

December 12, 2022 | Syndicated |
Lunar Flyby: NASA’s Orion capsule parachutes home safely after completing 25-day test flight to moon

December 11, 2022 | Newswire |
Report details rise of domestic violence in Wisconsin with women of color disproportionately harmed

December 11, 2022 | Syndicated |
A Legacy of Racism: The environmental injustice that Black women must endure as homeowners

December 11, 2022 | Syndicated |
How Senator Tammy Baldwin worked with others to defy political gravity on same-sex marriage

December 11, 2022 | Newswire |
Local community grieves for USPS postal carrier fatally shot in Milwaukee while delivering mail

December 10, 2022 | Newswire |
Reproductive Rights: After midterm election results battleground states weigh abortion protections

December 10, 2022 | Featured, Newswire |
States have exemptions from abortion bans for life-threatening emergencies but exclude a mental crises

December 10, 2022 | Newswire |
Research explores how higher levels of air pollution can harm the brain and impact mental health

December 10, 2022 | Syndicated |
Philanthropic foundations are increasingly stepping up to help prevent a nationwide nursing shortage

December 9, 2022 | Newswire |
Pandemic Problems vs. True Disability: Determining which kids qualify for special education services

December 9, 2022 | Newswire |
Embattled vaping company Juul reaches settlements covering thousands of lawsuits over its e-cigarettes

December 9, 2022 | Newswire |
Public schools struggle to fill counselor staffing positions to meet growing youth mental health crisis

December 9, 2022 | Featured, Newswire |
Boosting mindfulness: Small things that anyone can do every day to cope with seasonal depression

December 9, 2022 | Syndicated |
A War on Public Schools: How autocrats lower educational standards to dumb down the populace

December 9, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Christian bigotry takes national spotlight in latest attempt to overturn public accommodation laws

December 8, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Will Smith: “Emancipation” and the lesson his role as “Whipped Peter” taught him post-Oscar slap

December 8, 2022 | Newswire |
Historic Federal legislation protecting same-sex marriages and interracial unions clears Congress

December 8, 2022 | Newswire |
Political storm clouds already forming ahead of new year as State prepares debate over 2023 biennial budget

December 8, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated |
Why the “Independent state legislature doctrine” is latest fringe theory designed to dismantle democracy

December 8, 2022 | Syndicated |
House committee investigating January 6 attack will make criminal referrals to DOJ by end of year

December 8, 2022 | Newswire |
DOJ subpoenas Wisconsin officials as part of Grand Jury into Trump’s attempt to overturn 2020 election

December 7, 2022 | Newswire |
Inspired to hate: Why mass shooters and their political patrons should be classified as terrorists

December 7, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Lethal Force: San Francisco becomes first American city to approve police deployment of killer robots

December 7, 2022 | Newswire |
A year after omicron: The ever-morphing coronavirus mutant continues its assault on families

December 7, 2022 | COVID-19, Featured, Newswire |
A triple threat: Children vulnerable to seasonal flu, RSV, and COVID-19 are straining health care systems

December 7, 2022 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
China announces rollback of draconian anti-COVID measures in stunning reversal after public protests

December 7, 2022 | COVID-19, Newswire |
January 6 heroes honored with Congressional Gold Medals for defending Capitol from Trump’s sedition

December 6, 2022 | Newswire |
USS Arizona survivor honors the heroes killed at Pearl Harbor on 81st anniversary observance

December 6, 2022 | Newswire |
NASA’s Orion capsule heads back to earth after historic moon flight over Apollo landing sites

December 6, 2022 | Newswire |
Third White House bid will not shield Trump as Justice Department’s criminal investigations proceed

December 6, 2022 | Featured, Newswire |
Trump 2024 rivals court his donors as GOP frets about its future under ex-president’s leadership

December 6, 2022 | Newswire |
Our authoritarian society: When an American political party needs an armed paramilitary wing to rule

December 6, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Surge of anti-Jewish vitriol from celebrities is fueling fears about normalizing hate speech

December 5, 2022 | Newswire |
When Republicans politely deny antisemitism in public while fueling their base who actively embrace it

December 5, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
A process not an event: Genocide still persists decades after the Holocaust

December 5, 2022 | Syndicated |
Reggie Jackson: The ugly path from hateful speech to America’s style of pervasive violence

December 5, 2022 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Old tropes never die: How White Nationalists use conspiracy theories to promote anti-Jewish racism

December 5, 2022 | Syndicated |
A sacred symbol of peace: Asian faiths try to reclaim their ancient equilateral cross corrupted by Hitler

December 5, 2022 | Newswire |
A haunting precedent: The punishment of abolitionist John Brown in 1859 still reverberates today

December 4, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
GOP silent as Trump grabs headlines by advocating his dictatorship with overthrow of Constitution

December 4, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
How rightwing Christians forced the judiciary to impose a regressive religious vision across America

December 4, 2022 | Syndicated |
Ukraine is Here: Immersive virtual platform allows anyone to experience Ukraine’s culture from anywhere

December 3, 2022 | Articles |
In The Eye Of The Hurricane: Spanish museum succeeds with secret operation to exhibit Ukrainian artworks

December 3, 2022 | Newswire |
Resourcefulness to watch World Cup is yet another victory over Russia’s cruelty for soccer fans in Irpin

December 3, 2022 | Newswire |
Digital Privacy: Federal bill aims to give users control over what personal data companies can collect

December 2, 2022 | Syndicated |
Bad Browsers: How cookie notifications are used online to create friction and influence user behavior

December 2, 2022 | Syndicated |
Twitter rolls back enforcement of COVID policy meant to combat misinformation about vaccine safety

December 2, 2022 | Newswire |
Cinema as a surrogate parent: Outgrowing the shared experience for entertainment in a fragmented culture

December 2, 2022 | Editorial, Featured |
Emotional Intelligence: To cry while watching a movie shows empathy and is the exact opposite of weakness

December 2, 2022 | Syndicated |
Mamie Till-Mobley’s quest to educate America about her son Emmett’s lynching continues in new film

December 2, 2022 | Syndicated |
Seventh annual Rosa Parks Day tribute honors Civil Rights leader with an open seat on every MCTS bus

December 1, 2022 | Articles |
WisDOT recommends environmentally disruptive expansion of Milwaukee’s I-94 instead of plan to fix

December 1, 2022 | Syndicated |
The bill is coming due: Holding hope for the day when the Fossil Fuel Industry must face its victims in court

December 1, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
How private organizations are filling gaps in Federal programs to help Dreamers fulfill their dreams

December 1, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated |
Escaping a war zone: Why asylum seekers from Mexico are setting their sights as far north as Canada

December 1, 2022 | Newswire |
Conservative-leaning states make last-ditch effort to keep court from lifting Trump asylum policy

December 1, 2022 | Newswire |

November

MCTS trims some transit service due to remote work schedules and Milwaukee County’s 2023 budget gap

November 30, 2022 | Articles |
Phantom traffic jams: Cars equipped with AI could help local drivers ease rush hour congestion

November 30, 2022 | Newswire |
Oil price cap: The struggle to limit Russia’s profit while its crude flows to the global economy

November 30, 2022 | Newswire |
Enshrined in federal law: Landmark same-sex marriage legislation wins bipartisan passage in U.S. Senate

November 30, 2022 | Featured, Newswire |
Looming rail strike would have vast impact on economy if freight trains grind to a halt

November 30, 2022 | Newswire |
Railroad unions seek fair benefits for workers as labor laws remains tilted against them

November 30, 2022 | Syndicated |
A prison cell as the Oval Office? What laws says about a candidate under indictment running for president

November 29, 2022 | Syndicated |
A political sea change: Gen Z comes of age with voting power as record number of women elected to office

November 29, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
How the Boomer generation let political fat-cats rob Millennials and Zoomers of their future wealth

November 29, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Governor Tony Evers projects Wisconsin’s state budget surplus could reach $6.6 billion

November 29, 2022 | Featured, Newswire |
Combatting confusion: College students push to make voting access easier after facing midterm barriers

November 29, 2022 | Syndicated |
Majority at stake: Why Wisconsin’s spring 2023 supreme court race will be an “electoral ground zero”

November 29, 2022 | Syndicated |
Wisconsin DNR Secretary Preston Cole retires after a 35-year career dedicated to public service

November 28, 2022 | Articles |
Carbon Budget: Why reducing deforestation is vital to protecting biodiversity and slowing climate change

November 28, 2022 | Syndicated |
How the government can encourage the public to use clean energy without subsidizing just richer people

November 28, 2022 | Syndicated |
Angry crowds across China protest Xi Jinping’s “zero COVID” lockdown policy in unprecedented rebuke

November 28, 2022 | Featured, Newswire |
Lessons Unlearned: Schools were failing to adequately serve students of color even before COVID

November 28, 2022 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Zombie Virus: Scientists reanimate 50,000 year-old microbes released in thawing Siberian Permafrost

November 28, 2022 | Syndicated |
Widespread abuses in Ukraine: Reports of Russian torture site in Kherson at police detention center

November 27, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Targeting civilian power supply earns Russia the “state sponsor of terror” title as winter’s chill begins to bite

November 27, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Putin’s Silence: Russian dictator leaves the bad news of humiliating withdrawals in Ukraine to other leaders

November 27, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
A powerful dynamic of war: Why Ukrainian liberation is an incentive for allies like the United States

November 27, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Ukraine focuses suspicions on Orthodox Christian clergymen seen as being loyal to Russia

November 27, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Unreachable by air: Ukraine keeps trains running under constant threat across vital rail network

November 27, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Volodymyr Karplyuk: Irpin needs to be heard as the city faces both problems and progress with recovery

November 26, 2022 | Articles, Ukraine |
Millions have seen power restored since blackouts swept across war-battered Ukraine days earlier

November 26, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Experts from Ukraine join NATO probe of fatal missile strike that killed two in Poland

November 26, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Zdyrko Yaroslav: My journey across Ukraine to report on the war with a photojournalist from Milwaukee

November 26, 2022 | Articles, Featured, Ukraine |
Holodomor Memorial Day: Honoring Ukrainian victims on 90th anniversary of Stalin’s genocide and famine

November 26, 2022 | Articles, Ukraine |
Mariupol’s Holodomor Memorial destroyed by occupation troops to further erase Ukrainian history

November 26, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
World Health Organization warns that millions face a “life-threatening” winter in Ukraine

November 25, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Kherson returns to life as residents face reminders of the terrifying months spent under Russian occupation

November 25, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Moldova seeks aid to survive being hit hard by the collateral damage of war in next-door Ukraine

November 25, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Irpin officials say foreign philanthropic foundations have used the city’s suffering as a PR stunt

November 25, 2022 | Articles, Featured, Ukraine |
Ukraine United: Following his failed military strategy Putin’s war of false narratives is also crumbling

November 25, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Online language tools: A personal journey to learn Ukrainian after Russia’s second invasion began

November 25, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Ukraine officials urge local residents from recently-liberated areas to relocate before upcoming winter

November 24, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
A barbed wire curtain: Russia’s war in Ukraine ushered in a new era of confrontation and the rise of barriers

November 24, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Environmental toll of war: The pollution caused by Russia’s invasion will take Ukraine years to clean up

November 24, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Diane Baima: Former Milwaukee teacher shares stories of life in rural Ukraine during 9 months of war

November 24, 2022 | Featured, Profiles, Ukraine |
Years of investigating Holocaust atrocities are helping unearth Russian war crimes in Ukraine

November 24, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Could Russia collapse? It may be unthinkable but nobody predicted the end of the USSR either

November 24, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Most Ukrainians left without power after latest wave of Russian brutality targets vital energy resources

November 23, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
The cold and dark of Kyiv: Russia uses air strikes on infrastructure to plunge Ukraine into the Stone Age

November 23, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Russian shells continue hitting near nuclear plant in Zaporizhzhia as blackouts roll across Ukraine

November 23, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
A Polish legacy of faith: Historic St. Hyacinth Church recognized as a Milwaukee County landmark

November 23, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Revisiting Red Dawn: How war imitated art with the 1984 movie that inspired Ukrainian resistance

November 23, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Famed British artist Banksy seeds inspirational art amid Ukraine’s war ruins in Borodyanka

November 23, 2022 | Newswire, Ukraine |
Milwaukee-based education program works with men and boys to take a stand against human trafficking

November 22, 2022 | Articles |
The predictable tragedy of Club Q: When intolerant Conservatives lament the hate crimes they help create

November 22, 2022 | John Pavlovitz |
LGBTQ club mass shooting: How Red flag laws failed to prevent a gunman from acquiring AR-15-style weapons

November 22, 2022 | Syndicated |
Justin Aprahamian: Sanford’s James Beard Award-winning chef offsets inflation with culinary passion

November 22, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Why higher labor and food costs are taking a bite out of Thanksgiving dinner this year

November 22, 2022 | Newswire |
Waste not, want not: Lessons from the Japanese philosophy of not throwing everything away

November 22, 2022 | Syndicated |
Demise of Twitter? The world would lose valuable eyewitness accounts but also a habitat for trolls

November 21, 2022 | Syndicated |
Twitter in chaos: How users can protect their accounts as the platform’s future remains uncertain

November 21, 2022 | Newswire |
Twitter CEO restores Trump’s banned account after posting online poll riddled with bots

November 21, 2022 | Newswire |
A Dazzling Downtown: Milwaukee celebrates 109th Christmas Tree with fireworks and festival of lights

November 21, 2022 | Featured, Photos |
Milwaukee Grannies will dance again as part of healing process after Waukesha parade tragedy

November 21, 2022 | Newswire |
Milwaukee reacts to anti-LGBTQ violence after mass shooting at gay nightclub in Colorado Springs

November 21, 2022 | Newswire |
Pelosi steps down from House leadership as GOP plans congressional investigations to smear Democrats

November 20, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
No evidence of widespread fraud: Despite restrictive voting laws Election Day saw few major problems

November 20, 2022 | Newswire |
Trump vs. DeSantis: The simmering rivalry between two formidable foes has finally burst into public view

November 20, 2022 | Newswire |
What the midterms taught us: While the “Red Wave” was thwarted our fragile Democracy remains at risk

November 20, 2022 | Syndicated |
Vote at your own risk: 21st-century voter intimidation follows long history of illegal bullying by racists

November 20, 2022 | Syndicated |
Election Subversion: Why a batch of fateful trends are hitting Democracy like a political tornado

November 20, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Milwaukee County approves Wisconsin’s first historic LGBTQ landmark for site of the Black Nite Uprising

November 19, 2022 | Articles |
Gender-affirming care: Visibility of trans people is not the same as justice for their health rights

November 19, 2022 | Syndicated |
Federal legislation to protect same-sex marriages clears key Senate hurdle with bipartisan support

November 19, 2022 | Newswire |
Ewaso Village: Author Chip Duncan explores the Maasai people of East Africa in book of intimate stories

November 18, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Wakanda Forever: Why the “Black Panther” sequel celebrates lost cultures like the kingdom of Talokan

November 18, 2022 | Syndicated |
Oegugin Influencers: Why foreign enthusiasts of Korean culture miss the dark side of “pop nationalism”

November 18, 2022 | Syndicated |
Jonathan Brostoff and Mark Chambers sworn in as newest members of the Milwaukee Common Council

November 17, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Marcus Performing Arts Center unveils renovated grounds during rededication of its War Memorial

November 17, 2022 | Articles |
MCTS CONNECT: Milwaukee County Transit System celebrates arrival of first battery electric bus

November 17, 2022 | Articles |
The real American carnage: How the ousted autocrat who led an insurrection can run again for president

November 16, 2022 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
Ratings Worship: Can news outlets avoid another media circus with Trump’s third bid for White House?

November 16, 2022 | Syndicated |
The “Fake News” Crisis: Surviving America’s daily servings of spin, misdirection, and outright lies

November 16, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
People are tired of chaos: Autocrats like Putin lost the midterm elections along with the Republican Party

November 15, 2022 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
Age of the Zoomers: How a new generation can end 80-year cycle of relearning forgotten political lessons

November 15, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Twitter Bots: Research shows content rules help protect free speech from political manipulation

November 15, 2022 | Syndicated |
Pabst Around Milwaukee: Illustrated map details vast reach of Captain Frederick Pabst beyond his brewery

November 14, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
From “near beer” to cheese: What Milwaukee breweries produced to stay in business during Prohibition

November 14, 2022 | Syndicated |
A generational opportunity: Design plans unveiled for extension of Milwaukee’s Harbor District Riverwalk

November 14, 2022 | Articles |
The Bad News: The American Church is dying. The Good News: The American Church is dying

November 13, 2022 | John Pavlovitz |
Social Control: How shameless tax exemptions allow radical church leaders to conspire with politicians

November 13, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Nonbelievers rising: Pew Research Center’s study finds American Christians could be a minority group by 2070

November 13, 2022 | Syndicated |
Eisenhower’s Vision: From Armistice Day to American volunteers fighting in Ukraine against tyranny

November 12, 2022 | Heather Richardson, Ukraine |
Post-Election Audit: Wisconsin Elections Commission begins process to verify votes and certify results

November 12, 2022 | Curated |
Our False Messiah: Why Trump’s cult of personality is danger to both America and democracy

November 12, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Reggie Jackson: My Fears for Jewish friends who face the rising tide of antisemitism

November 11, 2022 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Affirmative Action: Rightwing Supreme Court justices doubt legality of remedy for unlawful discrimination

November 11, 2022 | Syndicated |
Why students of color will suffer from a national ban on Affirmative Action at selective colleges

November 11, 2022 | Syndicated |
NightWare: New system uses Apple Watch technology to help Veterans with PTSD find relief from nightmares

November 10, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
As control of Congress hangs in the balance results show Election Day was at least a win for democracy

November 10, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
The price of pretending: Why conspiracy theories are dangerous even if only a few people believe them

November 10, 2022 | Syndicated |
Milwaukee Votes: Residents cast ballots on a calm Election Day for control of Congress and the State

November 9, 2022 | Featured, Photos |
More than voting machines: Election systems are run by people who are overworked and under pressure

November 9, 2022 | Syndicated |
Preparing for the worst: Political violence in America by right-wing extremists will not end anytime soon

November 9, 2022 | Syndicated |
The Cost of Silence: People who avoided voting in 2018 can use a ballot today to kick out hateful politicians

November 8, 2022 | Featured, John Pavlovitz |
Political Violence: The fate of the nation and the soul of America rests in the hands of voters this midterm

November 8, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
Undermined trust: Why faith in nonpartisan election officials is not enough to protect voting results

November 8, 2022 | Syndicated |
Abandoning Democracy: Congressional Republicans are refusing to be bound by the 2022 election results

November 7, 2022 | Featured, Robert Reich |
United by Fear: When the GOP lost its legitimacy as a political party after capitulating to a radical fringe

November 7, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
How the presence of armed vigilantes outside voting places ensures a corrupt one-party government

November 7, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
Equivalency of complicity: How both sides of the political spectrum promoted fascism in America

November 6, 2022 | Syndicated |
The right to vote: When suffragist Susan B. Anthony led a group of women to the polls 150 years ago

November 6, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
State law for counting absentee ballots means full results from Election Day voting could take time

November 6, 2022 | Syndicated |
As the Biden White House works to rebuild the middle class the MAGA-fueled culture wars aim to demolish it

November 5, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
New research suggests that unpopular Conservative policies are also deadly to people who live under them

November 5, 2022 | Syndicated |
The Republican Legacy: Decades of evidence proves the catastrophic failure of so-called Reagan Revolution

November 5, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Mayor Cavalier Johnson fires Milwaukee election official who fraudulently requested military ballots

November 4, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Voter Fraud: How an election lie has been used as a political weapon against our Democracy since 1964

November 4, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
On Election Day: Options available to Milwaukee residents for protecting their votes if challenged

November 4, 2022 | Syndicated |
$A Broken America: Trump did not fracture the nation, he revealed our split and damaged soul$

A Broken America: Trump did not fracture the nation, he revealed our split and damaged soul

November 3, 2022 | Featured, John Pavlovitz |
Being a lame duck: The political threats facing President Biden if he decides to not run for reelection

November 3, 2022 | Syndicated |
Midterm Anger: Why a passion for political issues can be good for voter turnout but bad for democracy

November 3, 2022 | Syndicated |
A Party Flip: When defenders of Civil Rights abandoned their moral values for the ideology of White Power

November 2, 2022 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
Campaigning on conspiracy theories: How the political ideology of White Nationalism mainstreams racism

November 2, 2022 | Syndicated |
No sense of shame: Political figures in the Trump era do not even bother concealing their misdeeds

November 2, 2022 | Syndicated |
Milwaukee Press Club holds panel discussion on the impact of Latino votes in the midterm election

November 1, 2022 | Syndicated |
The Trump effect: Black voters face the real possibility that they will be unable to participate in elections

November 1, 2022 | Syndicated |
United We Dream: How young immigrants are using social media to engage in politics and elections

November 1, 2022 | Syndicated |

October

Día de Muertos: Historic Forest Home Cemetery hosts annual celebration of life for Milwaukee families

October 31, 2022 | Featured, Photos |
Horror Fiction: The persistent popularity and success of scary tales for scary times

October 31, 2022 | Syndicated |
Not for children: Why the depiction of modern clowns has reverted back to its dark origins

October 31, 2022 | Syndicated |
Red State Welfare: Broken results from decades of Republicans evading the responsibility of government

October 30, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Mail-order Conservatism: When political hucksters praise rugged individualism while crafting conformity

October 30, 2022 | Syndicated |
Problems of overconfidence: The danger of political conversations influenced by what we think we know

October 30, 2022 | Syndicated |
Meow Meow Meow: Celebrating our furry companions ahead of the midterm elections on National Cat Day

October 29, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Kitty Kryptonite: Understanding the behavioral impact of catnip’s nepetalactone on felines and humans

October 29, 2022 | Syndicated |
Emotional Relief: Studies show cats and other kinds of pet therapy helps to improve the wellbeing of patients

October 29, 2022 | Syndicated |
Brewtown Tales: New historical book by John Gurda shares more stories of Milwaukee’s people and places

October 28, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
David Claerbout: Milwaukee to host American premiere of groundbreaking multimedia exhibit “The Close”

October 28, 2022 | Curated |
Visual Annotations: Why so many medieval manuscripts feature doodles and what they reveal

October 28, 2022 | Syndicated |
Pardeep Kaleka: The dangers of Kanye West’s antisemitic rants four years after Pittsburgh synagogue tragedy

October 27, 2022 | Columns, Featured, Pardeep Kaleka |
A new breed of insurrectionist: Why America does not designate violent domestic extremists as terrorists

October 27, 2022 | Syndicated |
White Nationalism on the rise: How unrestricted social media access has attracted violent young men

October 27, 2022 | Syndicated |
Why lawmakers who voted against President Biden’s popular policies take credit for them before midterms

October 26, 2022 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
How fanatical election deniers in Wisconsin use Trump’s “Big Lie” to reshape the battleground state

October 26, 2022 | Syndicated |
The Big Con: Trump was a relative latecomer to the Republican Party’s longstanding Game of Grift

October 26, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
A Water Centric City: New self-guided interactive walking tour focuses on Milwaukee’s water identity

October 25, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Port Milwaukee celebrates city’s growing Great Lakes cruise industry and its rebound since COVID pandemic

October 25, 2022 | COVID-19, Curated |
Freshwater Ecosystems: Ballast water management is reducing the flow of invasive species into Great Lakes

October 25, 2022 | Syndicated |
DNR releases tool to understand PFAS contamination in Wisconsin on anniversary of Clean Water Act

October 25, 2022 | Curated |
Irpin’s Reconstruction: Fundraising videos seek help for local families who lost their homes in the war

October 24, 2022 | Articles, Featured, Ukraine |
Global Target: Fears grow that Russia will attack undersea cables to disrupt Internet infrastructure

October 24, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Beginning of the End: With all of Russia’s war failures it might be time to imagine a world without Putin

October 24, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Earnell Lucas resigns early as Milwaukee County Sheriff to take senior security position with Fiserv

October 23, 2022 | Curated, Featured |
Some crimes no longer pay: Trend shows bank robberies in decline with shift to cashless economy

October 23, 2022 | Syndicated |
Free Market Myths: How the ultra-rich sustain control and a growing share of the nation’s vast wealth

October 23, 2022 | Robert Reich |
Tip of the iceberg: MAGA Republicans embrace the same toxic economic plans that forced Liz Truss to resign

October 22, 2022 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
Collapse of Neoliberalism: Oligarchs in America and Russia face a crisis once thought to be an opportunity

October 22, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
A cycle of escalation: At some point the nuclear threats by Kim Jong Un will need to be taken seriously

October 22, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Derek M. Williams: Can the Scales of Justice ever be fair for a Black man in Milwaukee?

October 21, 2022 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Costs of incarceration: Wisconsin inmates and their families feel the financial squeeze of rising inflation

October 21, 2022 | Syndicated |
Locked Away: Why the system of solitary confinement is dehumanizing and breeds racial resentment

October 21, 2022 | Syndicated |
Retaining a Constitutional Right: Thousands of eligible Wisconsin voters face ballot barriers in jail

October 21, 2022 | Syndicated |
Education behind a Wall: How college in prisons are challenging professors to rethink the way they teach

October 21, 2022 | Syndicated |
Barriers to benefits: When ex-prisoners go hungry from being denied access to social safety programs

October 21, 2022 | Syndicated |
Abandoning the rule of law: How authoritarianism creates a fictitious world through consistent lying

October 20, 2022 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
Law and Order: Why the midterm message from the GOP is at odds with its support of criminal behavior

October 20, 2022 | Syndicated |
A Criminal Takeover: How the Supreme Court allowed dark money to overwhelm our political system

October 20, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Coup in Wilmington: How a 1898 strategy to overthrow a legitimately elected government continues today

October 19, 2022 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
Crime, inflation, and taxes: The false talking points used by Republicans to sway midterm voters

October 19, 2022 | Robert Reich |
A Toxic Oligarchy: Why Citizens United must be overturned to end the War on American Democracy

October 19, 2022 | Featured, Thom Hartmann |
Believing the unbelievable: How the science of the “Big Lie” and propaganda works to the GOP’s advantage

October 18, 2022 | Featured, Thom Hartmann |
Embracing Demagogues: Why the vital signs of a healthy democracy are in decline around the world

October 18, 2022 | Syndicated |
Techniques of Denial: Understanding the various distractions that politicians use to manage scandals

October 18, 2022 | Syndicated |
Attempted Coup: Final public hearing from January 6 panel shares irrefutable proof of Trump’s criminality

October 17, 2022 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
An Anti-Election Scam: How Republican-controlled states are applying a poll tax by purging voting rolls

October 17, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Classified Intel: Trump’s document scandal follows a history of weaponizing sensitive info for his benefit

October 17, 2022 | Syndicated |
Kanye. Elon. Trump. The three men who represent a bloody nightmare that awaits America in 2024

October 16, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
Enforcing the Constitution: Perhaps it is finally time to ban seditious MAGA Republicans from Congress

October 16, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
The banality of evil: Christian Nationalism and its ignored contribution to the January 6 attack

October 16, 2022 | Syndicated |
On Trial: Why GOP loyalists blocked Trump’s first impeachment in order to flip control of the Senate

October 15, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
Negotiating with a tyrant: Trump shows his loyalty to Putin with deceptive offer of brokering a peace deal

October 15, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
A rule, not a law: The Justice Department’s dilemma for when to prosecute politicians on criminal charges

October 15, 2022 | Syndicated |
A holiday for heroes: Ukrainian people honored on Defenders Day for courage against Russia’s invasion

October 14, 2022 | Articles, Featured, Ukraine |
Humiliating Setbacks: Russia launches wave of terror attacks on Ukraine’s civilians to placate hardliners

October 14, 2022 | Heather Richardson, Ukraine |
Congress accuses Saudi Arabia of helping underwrite Putin’s war in Ukraine with oil profits from supply cut

October 14, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Clash over crops: Lawmakers unwilling to make climate change a priority in order to help farmers

October 13, 2022 | Syndicated |
Bad Lunches: Wisconsin school districts seek to improve deteriorating quality of student meals

October 13, 2022 | Syndicated |
Mobile Markets: Bringing fresh food directly to customers in underserved areas of Milwaukee

October 13, 2022 | Syndicated |
Wisconsin residents still face decades-old barriers in qualifying for Federal food aid assistance

October 12, 2022 | Syndicated |
Exploiting our food system: How precision agriculture has made farming overly dependent on technology

October 12, 2022 | Syndicated |
A land of plenty: Even with abundant agricultural resources Wisconsin has a multitude of food deserts

October 12, 2022 | Syndicated |
Civil War Veterans of the Battle of Chickamauga honored at Milwaukee’s historic Forest Home Cemetery

October 11, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Toxic Chemicals in War: Health providers for Wisconsin Veterans prepare to expand care for burn pit exposure

October 11, 2022 | Syndicated |
Independent commission determines Confederate Memorial at Arlington Cemetery must be removed

October 11, 2022 | Syndicated |
Remembering Denis Sullivan: Departure of Milwaukee’s nautical icon is another loss for our local heritage

October 10, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Health Risks: Why people living along many Wisconsin waterways face increased Nitrate pollution

October 10, 2022 | Syndicated |
Infrastructure Upgrades: Logistical hurdles remain as hopes for offshore wind power become a reality

October 10, 2022 | Syndicated |
Kill Move Paradise: Next Act’s performance of the James Ijames play shares the anguish of afterlife for Blacks

October 9, 2022 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Two fires of 1871: Why one was forgotten while the other fanned fears of workers destroying America

October 9, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
Conservative Activism: Clarence Thomas is poised push Supreme Court to roll back more landmark rulings

October 9, 2022 | Syndicated |
Ideology of Authoritarianism: Why an anti-abortion GOP supports Herschel Walker after abortion report

October 8, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
Overgeneralized and under-recognized: How Census data hides racial diversity of Hispanics in America

October 8, 2022 | Syndicated |
Milwaukee Film hosts the return of Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival at the Oriental Theatre for seventh year

October 8, 2022 | Curated |
Michael Kutzer: Blurring realities with an artistic worldview of simultaneous harmony and ambiguity

October 7, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Heritage Conservation: Efforts to preserve cultural sites across the world must adapt to global changes

October 7, 2022 | Syndicated |
Spirited Away: Why the themes of fear and anxiety in Hayao Miyazaki’s Anime classic remain relevant today

October 7, 2022 | Syndicated |
Beyond routine corruption: Claiming to love America while systematically embracing the rule of oligarchs

October 6, 2022 | Featured, Thom Hartmann |
A democratic recession: Why nations like China feel more embolden to extend authoritarianism

October 6, 2022 | Syndicated |
Wisconsin company gets bipartisan congressional help against Chinese manufacturer accused of stealing IP

October 6, 2022 | Syndicated |
Weaponizing the debt ceiling: How MAGA Republicans will inflict economic ruin just to maintain power

October 5, 2022 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
Politics and the Holocaust: America faces a reckoning about race, discrimination, and history of oppression

October 5, 2022 | Syndicated |
The stigma of treatment: Why refugees dealing with trauma often face obstacles to mental health care

October 5, 2022 | Syndicated |
Tearing our nation apart: Why Americans fail to understand that crime is connected to inequality

October 4, 2022 | Featured, Thom Hartmann |
The Matthew Effect: How even middle class families face growing inequality after natural disasters

October 4, 2022 | Syndicated |
Overwhelming State Mandates: Milwaukee County will face future budget issues without sales tax increase

October 4, 2022 | Syndicated |
Irpin begins to dismantle and rebuild residential complex destroyed at start of Russia’s invasion

October 3, 2022 | Articles, Featured, Ukraine |
Ukraine responds to Russia’s declaration of war against Western democracies with NATO application

October 3, 2022 | Articles, Ukraine |
Economic Shock: Putin’s global Energy War continues to falter after sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines

October 3, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
The War on Education: How dismantling public schools further divides Americans into a caste system

October 2, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
A need for systemic change: Why Black girls are four times more likely to get suspended than White girls

October 2, 2022 | Syndicated |
Forced Labor: New report says millions of vulnerable people worldwide remain trapped in modern slavery

October 2, 2022 | Syndicated |
Deadly Driving: Milwaukee works at overcoming state bureaucratic barriers to make urban highways safer

October 1, 2022 | Syndicated |
Where to plug in? Why people of color face more barriers to adopt e-vehicles than White consumers

October 1, 2022 | Syndicated |
A skeptical Corn Belt: Researchers seek methods to unobtrusively install solar stations on farmland

October 1, 2022 | Syndicated |

September

Marcelia Nicholson: A Day in Photos with the Chairwoman of the County Board of Supervisors

September 30, 2022 | Featured, Profiles |
Fear of equality: Why Conservatives are frantic to restrict Black Americans from access to education

September 30, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
Transit Progress: First battery charging station installed for Milwaukee County’s East-West BRT line

September 30, 2022 | Articles |
Declining Democracy: How the United States is turning into a “developing country” like Cuba and Bulgaria

September 29, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated |
Jail-to-deportation pipeline: ACLU report details the thriving collaborating of Wisconsin sheriffs with ICE

September 29, 2022 | Syndicated |
Perpetuating elitism: Why using “Latine” as an alternative “Latinx” is considered more inclusive

September 29, 2022 | Syndicated |
Risk of death: How the youth suicide problem across America is fueled by easy access to guns

September 28, 2022 | Syndicated |
A source of distress: Viewing social media overuse as a byproduct of dissociation rather than addiction

September 28, 2022 | Syndicated |
“Alexa, are you listening?” How household virtual assistants are “eavesmining” our children

September 28, 2022 | Syndicated |
Reggie Jackson: The Brett Favre welfare fraud case reminds me that Mississippi has not changed much

September 27, 2022 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Mayor Cavalier Johnson signs ordinance establishing Juneteenth Day as an official city holiday

September 27, 2022 | Articles, Audio |
Undermining Equality: Why right-wing attacks on “wokeness” are really targeted against social justice

September 27, 2022 | Syndicated |
Heritage and Help: Milwaukee’s Pakistani diaspora rally support for flood-stricken homeland

September 26, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated |
Failed Promises: Why Puerto Rico’s vulnerability to hurricanes is magnified by bureaucratic roadblocks

September 26, 2022 | Syndicated |
A Political Stunt: DeSantis faces criminal investigation for shipping asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard

September 26, 2022 | Syndicated |
Mahsa Amini: Milwaukee’s Iranian community holds vigil for woman who died in police custody in Iran

September 25, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
A zero-sum game: How the war in Ukraine is helping Iran achieve its national security objectives

September 25, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
A lack of local loyalty: Why Oshkosh Corp highlights trend by companies to fleece hometowns for subsidies

September 25, 2022 | Syndicated |
Magruder’s Principle: The rapid advance by Ukraine against Russia shows its skill in modern warfare

September 24, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
A Paper Tiger: Ukraine has exposed the deep institutional weakness of Russia’s military capability

September 24, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Beyond Ukraine: How Putin wages war on the world from energy blackmail to threats of starvation

September 24, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
A show of weakness: Partial military mobilization reveals Putin’s desperation and perhaps his last stand

September 23, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated, Ukraine |
Illegal Annexation: Putin escalates war to dangerous new phase as ploy to avoid accepting defeat

September 23, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Leading from behind: Why Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is now more than a proxy war for the United States

September 23, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
A “broken” shared revenue system: Mayor Johnson seeks state aid for Milwaukee’s proposed $1.7B budget

September 22, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated |
Tilting toward a recession: The risks of a domestic economy in an interconnected global world

September 22, 2022 | Syndicated |
Poverty shaming: Why the ultra-wealthy perpetuate the rags-to-riches myth of being “self-made”

September 22, 2022 | Robert Reich |
A complete lie: Understanding the propaganda behind the political meme that “America is a 50/50 nation”

September 21, 2022 | Featured, Thom Hartmann |
Federal judge overturns ruling to ensure Wisconsin voters with disabilities get assistance to cast a ballot

September 21, 2022 | Syndicated |
Rewriting our Constitution: Why the wet dream of Billionaires to cripple democracy is nearly a reality

September 21, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Freedom Ride North: Why Abbott and DeSantis are playing with human lives like a racist sport

September 20, 2022 | Featured, Thom Hartmann |
Renewal of the Middle Class: An uncertain transition from fatcats and fascists to unifying our nation

September 20, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Voluntary Motherhood: When suffragists embraced a right to reject unwanted sex for fear of pregnancy

September 20, 2022 | Syndicated |
A recipe for despotism: How the far-right is already planning to steal the next presidential election

September 19, 2022 | Robert Reich |
Wisconsin and beyond: Handful of state candidates supporting Trump’s “Big Lie” likely to tilt 2024 election

September 19, 2022 | Syndicated |
Designed to deceive: Politically driven industry profits from tracking pregnancies and lying to women

September 19, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Abortion Care: Clinics in neighboring states team up to offer reproductive health services to Wisconsinites

September 18, 2022 | Syndicated |
Therapeutic Abortions: Wisconsin physicians remain unclear about ambiguous wording of 173-year-old ban

September 18, 2022 | Syndicated |
Support for abortion: A time before Southern Baptists embraced governmental control of a woman’s body

September 18, 2022 | Syndicated |
Ukraine War Stories: Developer releases online game using real life events from Hostomel, Bucha, Mariupol

September 17, 2022 | Articles, Ukraine |
Running short on soldiers: Why Putin continues to ignore Russia’s staggering losses on the battlefield

September 17, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
National Security: What the U.S. Military can learn from Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine

September 17, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Corporate Complicity: Why billionaires underwrite Trump and his allies to pay as little tax as possible

September 16, 2022 | Syndicated |
Corporate Personhood: When egregious businesses should be removed from society like human criminals

September 16, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Big Lie’s Big Money: Watchdog group criticizes Northwestern Mutual’s donations to election deniers

September 16, 2022 | Syndicated |
Santiago Calatrava Day: Architect of Art Museum’s Quadracci Pavilion honored on 20th Anniversary

September 15, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Living Architecture: How human-centered design can alter the trend of constructing soulless buildings

September 15, 2022 | Syndicated |
Cellphones and Kaiju: Why pop culture uses mobile network towers to symbolize our collective anxieties

September 15, 2022 | Syndicated |
A lingering labor shortage: Businesses struggle as long COVID sidelines thousands of Wisconsin workers

September 14, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated |
Pandemic Boosters: COVID-19 vaccine could become annual necessity like the flu shot

September 14, 2022 | Syndicated |
Crisis Fatigue: How overexposure to traumatic news pushes the public to becomes indifferent to tragedy

September 14, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Climate-resilient public transit will be crucial to ensuring mobility for vulnerable communities

September 13, 2022 | Syndicated |
Post-Pandemic Transit: How deploying more electric buses could help MCTS recover lost revenue

September 13, 2022 | Syndicated |
An Environmental Feud: Why a Lake Michigan seawall created more problems for downstream neighbors

September 13, 2022 | Syndicated |
A planetary crisis: Expanding universal human rights to include a healthy and sustainable environment

September 13, 2022 | Syndicated |
Alarming ice melt: New study shows Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the rest of the world

September 13, 2022 | Syndicated |
Green means go: Offshore wind farms could fuel the next energy boom for America

September 13, 2022 | Syndicated |
Milwaukee remembers 9/11: City leaders recall the fateful day on 21st anniversary of terror attacks

September 12, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Make-A-Wish Wisconsin teams up with 128th Air Refueling Wing to fulfill a special aviation dream

September 12, 2022 | Curated |
Racism in the ranks: U.S. Military clamps down on political speech as concerns over extremism grows

September 12, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated |
Ruin and Rejuvenation: Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Irpin during surprise visit to Ukraine

September 11, 2022 | Articles, Featured, Ukraine |
200th Day of War: Putin’s military forces suffer worst strategic defeat since the failed attack on Kyiv

September 11, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Battle Tactics: The unexpected Ukrainian resistance continues to prevent Putin’s plans for quick victory

September 11, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Seeking Shelter: Displaced residents in war-torn Ukrainian towns fear a bitter winter without homes

September 11, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Wishful Thinking: Why the fallacy of making peace with Russia necessitates feeding the wolf of war

September 11, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Destroyed War Machines: Ukraine follows the ancient practice of trophy displays to ridicule Russia

September 11, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Critical Congressional Vote: Federal bill codifying same-sex marriage gains momentum in U.S. Senate

September 10, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated |
Overcoming the filibuster: Senator Tammy Baldwin pushes for support of LGBT marriage protection

September 10, 2022 | Syndicated |
Rejecting rights and freedoms: Ron Johnson declares opposition to Federal same-sex marriage legislation

September 10, 2022 | Syndicated |
A political tool: Why the backlash to transgender rights has a long and hostility history

September 10, 2022 | Syndicated |
Beyond the Binary: College students are using new pronouns to identify gender other than “she” and “he”

September 10, 2022 | Syndicated |
The fantasy of the straight cowboy: How gay rodeos upend presumptions about life in rural America

September 10, 2022 | Syndicated |
Queen Elizabeth II: The “new Elizabethan age” ends with death of longest-serving monarch

September 9, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated |
Queen Elizabeth II: A modernizing force who guided a fading British empire into the 21st century

September 9, 2022 | Syndicated |
Princess Diana: Why conspiracy theories still surround her death after 25 years

September 9, 2022 | Syndicated |
Governor Evers plans to invest millions to improve access to clean drinking water across the state

September 8, 2022 | Curated, Featured |
A rise in temperatures: Experts say energy grids across Wisconsin are not prepared for coming heat waves

September 8, 2022 | Syndicated |
Scarce air conditioning: Milwaukee’s most at risk residents endure a lack of cooling assistance

September 8, 2022 | Syndicated |
Bill Sell: Former civil rights activist and community advocate remembered for his love of Bay View

September 7, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Trump accused of inciting domestic terrorism by calling President Biden an “Enemy of the State”

September 7, 2022 | Syndicated |
Telling the unvarnished truth: “Balanced journalism” does not exist halfway between facts and lies

September 7, 2022 | Robert Reich |
President Joe Biden celebrates labor victories in Milwaukee and rebukes violent MAGA Republicans

September 6, 2022 | Featured, Photos |
Milwaukee Laborfest: Latino and immigrant workers outline the stakes in Wisconsin’s mid-term election

September 6, 2022 | Articles |
Labor Day 1882: Very first parade emphasized value of workers for the economy as a warning to politicians

September 6, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
Work Visas and Economics: Decline in legal immigration is contributing to severe labor shortages

September 6, 2022 | Syndicated |
Little Big League: Professional baseball could be America’s next labor battle over unionization

September 6, 2022 | Syndicated |
Demanding Dignity: New generation of Wisconsin activists fight for better wages and work conditions

September 6, 2022 | Syndicated |
The Great Resignation Myth: Report finds consistent signs of increased power for workers in Wisconsin

September 6, 2022 | Syndicated |
Corporate Blowback: Self-organized labor movement to protect workers’ rights behind push for unions

September 6, 2022 | Syndicated |
Salt of the Earth: Classic Hollywood films have long dramatized America’s rich labor history

September 6, 2022 | Syndicated |
Of ships and stones: A review of the political spectrum separating “Rings of Power” and “House of the Dragon”

September 5, 2022 | Editorial, Featured |
A torturous birth: How “House of the Dragon” reduces the role of women to little more than just a womb

September 5, 2022 | Syndicated |
The myth of monsters: Why dragons have historically represented in many cultures the power of nature

September 5, 2022 | Syndicated |
Prayers amid trauma: Survivors respond to funeral as Archdiocese of Milwaukee honors Rembert Weakland

September 4, 2022 | Syndicated |
Mike Larson: Personal reflections on remaining Catholic in spite of the ongoing sex abuse crisis

September 4, 2022 | Syndicated |
When words hurt instead of heal: What never to say to someone who has survived abuse by Catholic clergy

September 4, 2022 | Syndicated |
Democracy is not guaranteed: President Biden sounds alarm about extremism by Trump’s “MAGA Republicans”

September 3, 2022 | Syndicated |
Political violence as the norm: Trump signals plans to pardon January 6 insurrectionists if re-elected in 2024

September 3, 2022 | Syndicated |
Tax records show GOP candidate Tim Michels gave $175K to Wisconsin anti-abortion groups during pandemic

September 3, 2022 | Syndicated |
Election Scheming: New details highlight how Ginni Thomas lobbied to overturn Wisconsin’s 2020 results

September 3, 2022 | Syndicated |
A fragile ego: When Trump’s mythos collapses it may drag fervent followers into his narcissistic downfall

September 3, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
A manufactured crisis: Beijing resents when a democracy like Taiwan gets too close to America

September 2, 2022 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
The Belt and Road Initiative: Why China’s ambitious global development plan will chiefly benefit China

September 2, 2022 | Syndicated |
The concept of Han: Understanding how the ancestral heart of Korea’s spirit can teach us solidarity

September 2, 2022 | Syndicated |
At long last: President Joe Biden calls out MAGA Republicans for their threat of being “semi-fascists”

September 1, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
An autocratic realignment: What if Trump’s conspiracy plot went well beyond what the public knows?

September 1, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Obstruction of Justice: Behind Trump’s concealment of classified documents stolen from the government

September 1, 2022 | Heather Richardson |

August

Paid for by Big Pharma: Mandela Barnes hits at Ron Johnson for selling out to big corporate donors

August 31, 2022 | Syndicated |
Statutory Corruption: When saving trillions of dollars and millions of American lives is not enough

August 31, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Economic impact: Experts doubt that Milwaukee could actually see $200M in revenue from the RNC in 2024

August 31, 2022 | Syndicated |
Yvonne Kemp Day: Pioneering female photojournalist celebrated for her years of documenting Milwaukee

August 30, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Photography of imaginary things: Who takes credit for AI-generated artwork using a neural network?

August 30, 2022 | Syndicated |
Dreams of Civil Rights: Why Americans are still fighting the same fights a hundred years later

August 30, 2022 | Heather Richardson |
Expanded plan by Governor Evers aims to help working families with tax cuts offset by massive budget surplus

August 29, 2022 | Curated, Featured |
A Political Cash Cow: How Big Business uses inflation to increase profits and derail democracy

August 29, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Corporate Socialism: How Federal policy went from regulating big business to heavily subsidizing it

August 29, 2022 | Robert Reich |
Milwaukee’s City TV Channel now broadcasting programs with closed captioning in Spanish

August 28, 2022 | Curated, Featured |
A rising death toll: Why crossing the U.S. border from Mexico has become more tragic for migrants

August 28, 2022 | Syndicated |
Biden administration to end cruel Trump-era policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico

August 28, 2022 | Syndicated |
Zaporizhzhia could be Chernobyl 2.0: The Russians are again orchestrating an atomic disaster for the world

August 27, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
An enduring resilience: Remembering Ukraine’s 1991 vote for independence and its continued courage

August 27, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
The Dream of Democracy: Why Ukrainians have never treated their country’s sovereignty as a given

August 27, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Mental Health Complex to permanently close as County fully transitions to community-based care

August 26, 2022 | Curated, Featured |
The Cure: Why Universal healthcare would enable a healthier population to withstand the next pandemic

August 26, 2022 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Signs of hope: Wisconsin medical advisors urge caution as COVID-19 hospitalizations fluctuate

August 26, 2022 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Wisconsin borrowers could get up to $20K in student loan relief with President Biden’s plan to cancel debt

August 25, 2022 | COVID-19, Featured, Syndicated |
Restricting Teachers: When politicians use fear to control classroom discussions about slavery

August 25, 2022 | Syndicated |
Teacher shortage problem: Why disrespect of the academic profession is driving educators away

August 25, 2022 | Syndicated |
Drop in Enrollment: Wisconsin schools struggle to recover from pandemic even as COVID-19 cases decline

August 25, 2022 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
From Irpin to Milwaukee: The price we still pay after six months of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

August 24, 2022 | Editorial, Featured, Ukraine |
A Colonial War: How Ukrainians are resisting the centuries-old ambitions of Russia’s imperialism

August 24, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Unhealed Wounds: Russia’s aggression against Ukraine prompts Baltic states to remove Soviet memorials

August 24, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
State-sponsored Antisemitism: Kremlin’s threat to close Jewish emigration service echoes Soviet era

August 24, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Irpin is my home: Art project uses drawings by local children to produce t-shirt collection of solidarity

August 23, 2022 | Featured, Ukraine |
Bravery as a brand: When Ukraine turned adverting its national image into an effective weapon of war

August 23, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Crimea’s significance: Understanding the new tactics by Ukraine to liberate its strategic territory

August 23, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Under conditions of war: Friendships and family ties in Ukraine have been both shattered and strengthened

August 23, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Reggie Jackson: What you don’t know about hate may kill me

August 22, 2022 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
The cost of cultural ignorance: Why American Sikhs remain targets of bigotry and racial violence

August 22, 2022 | Syndicated |
Frontier Mythology: American gun culture ignores how common gun restrictions were in the Old West

August 22, 2022 | Syndicated |
Reinventing Treason: When four illegitimate Republican presidents each abandon democracy

August 21, 2022 | Thom Hartmann |
Rage Giving: When charitable donations are motivated by dissatisfaction with the political climate

August 21, 2022 | Syndicated |
Why privacy is a foundation of many constitutional protections but not mentioned in the Constitution

August 21, 2022 | Syndicated |
Governor Evers slams latest delay by Republicans over releasing funds to treat opioid abuse in Wisconsin

August 20, 2022 | Curated |
One Pill Can Kill: Waukesha declares health crisis after record number of youth overdose on Fentanyl

August 20, 2022 | Syndicated |
White market drugs: Why the opioid crisis induced by Big Pharma goes beyond the villainy of the Sacklers

August 20, 2022 | Syndicated |
MCTS continues to transform fleet with 73 new clean diesel buses to serve Milwaukee County routes

August 19, 2022 | Curated, Featured |
MCTS rolls out three phase plan for transitioning to new WisGo fare collection system in 2023

August 19, 2022 | Curated |
Uptick in transit ridership: MCTS surpasses one million more rides than same time in 2021

August 19, 2022 | Curated |
A political debt: Race for governor heats up as Evers criticizes his opponent for being beholden to Trump

August 18, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated |
From bewildered to outraged: When Americans idolize a man who broke his solemn oath for personal gain

August 18, 2022 | Syndicated |
Betraying the Blue: GOP co-opts call for “defunding police” after Trump held accountable to rule of law

August 18, 2022 | Curated |
A Gallery of Heroes: War Memorial Center opens Wisconsin’s first Medal of Honor exhibit

August 17, 2022 | Articles, Featured |
Wall of Faces: Photo found for each service member with name inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

August 17, 2022 | Curated |
A return to repression: The Taliban has failed to deliver on its promises a year after the fall of Kabul

August 17, 2022 | Syndicated |
Forensic Evidence: Lessons from Afghanistan show challenges of proving Russian war crimes in Ukraine

August 16, 2022 | Featured, Syndicated, Ukraine |
Powerful Images: How social media has altered journalism standards for the depictions of war

August 16, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |
Russia seeks to further isolate itself with decision to withdraw from the International Space Station

August 16, 2022 | Syndicated, Ukraine |