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Thinking about the best way to help survivors in Türkiye when the unthinkable happens
Earthquake Mission in Türkiye: A massive earthquake struck Türkiye and Syria on February 6,...
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...
Local businesses receive $1.5M in grant funding from Milwaukee’s Commercial Revitalization program
In 2022, more than $1.5 million in grant funding was awarded to 50 local businesses for property...
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Reggie Jackson: The beating death of Tyre Nichols asks unanswered question of when will police abuse end
“There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, ‘When will you be...
Pardeep Kaleka: The dangers of Kanye West’s antisemitic rants four years after Pittsburgh synagogue tragedy
Four years ago, on October 27, 2018, the country and the world saw the traumatic consequences that...
We Need Imagination: A glance at my 2020 bookshelf
In the early days of the stay-at-home orders, I woke up and immediately – as if guided by...
Reopening Schools in Wisconsin: The dilemma of returning to normal during abnormal times
This is an opinion piece. No more and no less. Just an opinion shared in an online publication,...
A look down: Enjoying the Zen of the natural world from a collection of drone images
It has been a long year and, following the past three, there is an element of weariness baked into...
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Aid groups play vital role in helping Syria’s quake-devastated areas that were already disaster zones
By Kimberly Howe, University of Virginia Humanitarian Collaborative Practitioner Fellow; Assistant...
Why accepting DeSantis’s version of history would be a perversion of our past and our principles
It is commonly understood that Republican Rutherford B. Hayes won the electoral votes from three...
Putin’s sales pitch: Why GOP members of Congress are suddenly outspoken against aid to Ukraine
Make no mistake. There is a battle right now between autocracy and democracy around the world....
The exhaustion that Blue people endure when living in a Red America that refuses to see them
I have spoken to a lot of exhausted people recently, even with the good news that many of us have...
When the rich paid taxes: Why Republicans hide the real cause of America’s $31tn debt
The dire warnings of fiscal hawks are once again darkening the skies of official Washington. They...
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Displaced and Deserted: What remains of Adiyaman and Antakya after the February 6 disaster
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred on February 6 in southern Türkiye near the northern border of Syria. It was followed nine hours later by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake located around 59 miles to the southwest. The first epicenter was located in Kahramanmaraş’s Pazarcık district, with the second in the Elbistan district.
