Medical College of Wisconsin researchers identify link between mortgage lending bias and cancer survival
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) have identified a linkage between contemporary redlining, mortgage lending bias based on property location, and mortality after breast cancer diagnosis among older women in the United States. The results, published...
Medical Debt: Wisconsin hospitals continued legal proceedings against patients during the pandemic
Last year as COVID-19 laid siege to the nation, many U.S. hospitals dramatically reduced their aggressive tactics to collect medical debt. Some ceased entirely. But not all. There was a nearly 90% drop overall in legal actions between 2019 and the first seven months...
Controversial Wisconsin golf course faces setback after ancient human remains found at proposed site
Archeologists have unearthed human remains of Native Americans who lived up to 2,500 years ago during excavations of the Sheboygan County site along Lake Michigan where Kohler Co. wants to build an 18-hole golf course. A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee team in 2018...
A Confederate Tradition: The insurrectionists of January 6 also believed they were defending America
Trump’s Big Lie has a number of elements that echo the argument behind the organization of the Confederacy in 1861. Like the Confederates, the Big Lie inspired followers by calling for them not to destroy America, but to defend it. The insurrectionists of January 6,...
President Joe Biden details bipartisan deal on infrastructure during trip to Wisconsin
During a June 29 trip to the swingiest congressional district in the swing state of Wisconsin, President Joe Biden detailed a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, focusing on how it would help families and workers across Wisconsin and the country. Speaking from the...
Social Engineering: What investments in infrastructure have cost communities of color
By Erika M Bsumek, Associate Professor of History, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts and James Sidbury, Professor of History, Rice University The effort by Democrats and Republicans in Congress to find agreement over a federal infrastructure...
The End of Enlightenment: Why Republicans seek to plunge America into darkness by assaulting reason
The Enlightenment was a time of intellectual ferment in the Western world following the Middle Ages. Its ideas gave birth to the modern world. We know the Enlightenment from the names of its most brilliant expositors: Francis Bacon, John Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu,...
An epidemic of distrust: New study details the public health problem behind not drinking tap water
By Asher Rosinger, Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Anthropology, and Demography. Director, Water, Health, and Nutrition Laboratory, Penn State Imagine seeing a news report about lead contamination in drinking water in a community that looks like yours. It...
Underage Drinking: Alcohol companies make billions in profit from the behavior they do little to prevent
By David H. Jernigan, Professor of Health Law, Policy & Management, Boston University Alcohol is still the most commonly used drug among high school students. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every year approximately 3,500 people under...
Lindbergh Park moves one step closer to being renamed for local activist Lucille Berrien
The County Board of Supervisors today unanimously adopted a proposal to rename Lindbergh Park, 3629 N. 16th Street to “Lucille Berrien Park” on June 24. Located behind the old Keefe Avenue School, the park is surrounded by a predominantly Black neighborhood and serves...
Entitled Self-Importance: Research links narcissistic people to increased aggressive and violent behavior
By Brad Bushman, Professor of Communication and Psychology, The Ohio State University; and Sophie Kjaervik, PhD Student in Communication, The Ohio State University A recent review of 437 studies on narcissism and aggression, involving a total of over 123,000...
A weaponization of the Eucharist: When the Church authority rejects your access to unconditional love
Conservative Roman Catholic Bishops in the United States have voted on a new guidance for the Eucharist. The move could result in a ban of pro-choice Catholics, and specifically President Joe Biden, from receiving the Holy Communion. The further politicalization of...
