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A Volunteer Spirit: Mayor Satoru Kirigaya shares lessons from life and business for being a leader
“Milwaukee Independent” sat down with the Mayor of Zushi, Satoru Kirigaya, in Kanagawa...
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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Reggie Jackson: The frustration of fighting for a U.S. democracy never meant to protect Black citizens
“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time. Everyone in...
How Trump and Musk are breaking the U.S. government so oligarchs can seize control of public institutions
The reelection of Donald Trump has emboldened a brazen strategy designed to undermine the federal...
Oligarchic system from 1920s now drives America toward a “Rollerball” vision of corporate rule
Corporate supremacy first dragged the United States to economic devastation nearly a century ago,...
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A digital afterlife: How artificial intelligence is redefining death, memory, and immortality
By Patrick van Esch, Associate Professor of Marketing, Coastal Carolina University; and Yuanyuan...
Tyranny of the majority: Why Obama is advocating for the Constitution’s promise of pluralism
On December 5, in Chicago, former president Barack Obama gave the third in an annual series of...
Predators and Prey: What the science says about why the morbidly rich dominate poor working people
Nature and economics share some fascinating patterns. One of which explains why Donald Trump...
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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Milwaukee residents rally in outrage over Trump’s humiliation of Zelenskyy and betrayal of Ukraine
Ukrainians in Milwaukee and around the world have been rallying around President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the aftermath of the ambush he suffered at the White House, when Donald Trump and JD Vance used the meeting to publicly humiliate the wartime leader and promote Russian lies.
