Category: Columns
Milwaukee’s Urban Farming: How a Rust Belt City cultivated a grassroots idea into a national model
Milwaukee’s reputation as a manufacturing powerhouse once defined its economic and cultural...
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Wallace in Wisconsin: The 1964 campaign that tested America’s soul over the politics of identity
In April 1964, Alabama Governor George Wallace entered the Wisconsin Democratic presidential...
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Nationalist revisionism: How the 1776 report laid the groundwork for Trump’s war on U.S. history
Four years after it was quietly released in the final days of Donald Trump’s first term, a...
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Weaponized rhetoric: How “redistribution of wealth” became a racist attack line during Reconstruction
In the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War, as the South lay shattered and newly emancipated Black...
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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...
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A War on Barbie: Why American women and children are the target of Trump’s tariffs and toxic ideology
Donald Trump’s outlandish and disruptive trade war has become both an economic weapon and a...
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