A Cultural Bridge: Why Milwaukee needs to invest in a Museum that celebrates Korean art and history
EXPLORING KOREA: Stories from Milwaukee to the DMZ and across a divided Peninsula. This special series explores historical sites and cultural traditions from across the Korean Peninsula, building a bridge back to the search for identity in Milwaukee. From the...
Korean diplomat joins Milwaukee’s Korean American community in celebration of 79th Liberation Day
EXPLORING KOREA: Stories from Milwaukee to the DMZ and across a divided Peninsula. This special series explores historical sites and cultural traditions from across the Korean Peninsula, building a bridge back to the search for identity in Milwaukee. From the...
Exploring Korea: Stories from Milwaukee to the DMZ and across a divided peninsula
EXPLORING KOREA: Stories from Milwaukee to the DMZ and across a divided Peninsula. This special series explores historical sites and cultural traditions from across the Korean Peninsula, building a bridge back to the search for identity in Milwaukee. From the...
A pawn of history: How the Great Power struggle to control Korea set the stage for its civil war
EXPLORING KOREA: Stories from Milwaukee to the DMZ and across a divided Peninsula. This special series explores historical sites and cultural traditions from across the Korean Peninsula, building a bridge back to the search for identity in Milwaukee. From the...
Names for Korea: The evolution of English words used for its identity from Gojoseon to Daehan Minguk
EXPLORING KOREA: Stories from Milwaukee to the DMZ and across a divided Peninsula. This special series explores historical sites and cultural traditions from across the Korean Peninsula, building a bridge back to the search for identity in Milwaukee. From the...
Private photos in the public domain: When families push back against journalists who mine social media
By Laura Wajnryb McDonald, PhD candidate in Criminology, University of Sydney Less than 24 hours after Ashlee Good was killed in Bondi Junction, her family released a statement requesting the media take down photographs they had reproduced of Ashlee and her family...
Generative journalism: The risk of newsrooms experimenting with AI tools that are still unreliable
By Nir Eisikovits, Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston The journalism industry has been under immense economic pressure over the past two decades, so it makes sense that journalists have started experimenting with generative AI to...
Underconsumption core: How the minimalism trend is challenging the culture of toxic consumerism
By Omar H. Fares, Lecturer in the Ted Rogers School of Retail Management, Toronto Metropolitan University; and Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee, Professor and Associate Dean of Engagement & Inclusion, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University A new...
Teachers in Head Start preschools struggle to make ends meet even as program aims to fight poverty
In some ways, Doris Milton is a Head Start success story. She was a student in one of Chicago’s inaugural Head Start classes, when the antipoverty program, which aimed to help children succeed by providing them a first-rate preschool education, was in its...
Experts worry local governments are ill-equipped to properly distribute billions from opioid settlements
Settlement money to help stem the decades-long opioid addiction and overdose epidemic is rolling out to small towns and big cities across the U.S., but advocates worry that chunks of it may be used in ways that do not make a dent in the crisis. As state and local...
True humans: Science paints a new picture of mankind’s past when we mated with other ancient hominins
What does it mean to be human? For a long time, the answer seemed clear. Earlier forms, like the Neanderthals, were thought to be just steps along the path of evolution, who died out because we were better versions. Our species, Homo sapiens — with our complex...
Teachers see improvement in the mental health of students as more schools take breaks for meditation
The third-grade students at Roberta T. Smith Elementary School had only a few days until summer vacation, and an hour until lunch, but there was no struggle to focus as they filed into the classroom. They were ready for one of their favorite parts of the day. The...
