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From Abuja to Irpin: Milwaukee’s Sister Cities Day celebrates international ties built through people
City Hall came alive with music, dance, and heartfelt stories on May 16, as Milwaukee marked its...
Aly Miller: Playfully navigating the relationship between place and identity with illustrative maps
In parallel with the uniqueness of an individual’s identity are the maps each of us formulates of...
Microsoft’s purchase of 240 acres in Kenosha is expected to launch a new era of tech-driven growth
The state of Wisconsin and city of Kenosha announced on January 27 that Microsoft had purchased...
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The bot that cried MAGA: How AI’s ability to lie at scale mirrors the idiocy of a movement that broke politics
The most dangerous thing artificial intelligence has learned from humanity is not how to speak. It...
Hungary’s democratic collapse offers a blueprint for Trump’s authoritarian vision for America
In the eyes of radical MAGA conservatives, Viktor Orbán is not just a European leader, he is a...
Episcopal Church refuses to aid the resettlement of Trump’s fake White South African refugees
The Episcopal Church has drawn a sharp line against the Trump regime’s fast-tracked resettlement...
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Trump is expected to unleash mass surveillance against political enemies and minority populations
By Brittany Friedman, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters,...
Trump pone en duda su creencia en el derecho fundamental al debido proceso mientras busca “gobernar el mundo”
En una entrevista transmitida el 4 de mayo en Meet the Press de NBC News, la periodista Kristen...
Electoral Crimes: How Republicans stole their way into the White House for more than half a century
Trump is an illegitimate president, but he’s not the first. The last Republican who was elected...
The Pandemic We Wasted: How we could have transcended our self-erected barriers of politics
What do you remember about the first days of the pandemic? I remember going to three grocery...
Being heartbroken and scared: Why a determined but peaceful resistance to Trump must start now
I will not try to hide it. I am heartbroken. Heartbroken and scared, to tell you the truth. I am...
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Thousands rally in Milwaukee as part of nationwide “Hands Off!” demonstrations against Trump and Musk
Crowds of people angry about the way Donald Trump and South African oligarch Elon Musk are running the country rallied in Milwaukee and scores of American cities on April 5 in the biggest day of demonstrations yet by an opposition movement trying to regain its momentum after the shock of the Republican’s brutal first weeks in office.
