Calling them Communists: Why Trump attacks his enemies with a label loaded with historical baggage
For years, Donald Trump blamed “communists” for his legal and political troubles. Now, the second Trump administration is deploying that same historically loaded label to cast his opponents, from judges to educators, as threats to American identity,...
Hungary’s democratic collapse offers a blueprint for Trump’s authoritarian vision for America
In the eyes of radical MAGA conservatives, Viktor Orbán is not just a European leader, he is a prophet. The Hungarian prime minister has become a celebrity figure in far-right American circles, regularly praised on Fox News, invited to speak at CPAC events, and...
Trump is expected to unleash mass surveillance against political enemies and minority populations
By Brittany Friedman, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California President Donald Trump has vowed to target his political enemies, and experts have warned that he could weaponize U.S....
Privacy dismantled: How MAGA minions are quietly repurposing federal data for mass surveillance
By Nicole M. Bennett, Ph.D. Candidate in Geography and Assistant Director at the Center for Refugee Studies, Indiana University A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board reported an unusual spike in potentially sensitive data flowing out of the agency’s...
From Abuja to Irpin: Milwaukee’s Sister Cities Day celebrates international ties built through people
City Hall came alive with music, dance, and heartfelt stories on May 16, as Milwaukee marked its 2025 Sister Cities Meet and Greet Day, honoring the relationships that continue to grow between Milwaukee and its seven international partners. From Abuja to Irpin,...
Judge Hannah Dugan maintains her innocence in plea to a Federal magistrate over ICE’s obstruction claim
Judge Hannah Dugan, a respected Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, is at the center of a federal prosecution that legal experts and civil rights advocates are calling an alarming escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign against judicial independence....
Habeas corpus: The thousand-year-old legal principle for defending rights that Trump’s regime wants to end
By Andrea Seielstad, Professor of Law, University of Dayton In some parts of the world, a person may be secreted away or imprisoned by the government without any advanced notification of wrongdoing or chance to make a defense. This has not been lawful in the United...
Republican revival of failed Reaganomics pushes Milwaukee seniors toward hunger and despair again
The last time the American public watched their elderly parents eat dog food to survive, Ronald Reagan had just swept into office, and a Republican-led economic crisis was gutting the middle class. Four decades later, the same party, driven by Trump’s nationalist...
Arbitrary Social Security demands create barriers in rural communities without mobility or internet
Veronica Taylor does not know how to turn on a computer, let alone use the internet. The 73-year-old cannot drive and is mostly housebound in her mountainous and remote West Virginia community, where a simple trip to the grocery store can take an hour by car. New...
A health puzzle: Four years of long COVID research paints an unsettling medical picture
By Ziyad Al-Aly, Chief of Research and Development, VA St. Louis Health Care System. Clinical Epidemiologist, Washington University in St. Louis Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread disability affecting the health and quality of...
The true total of COVID-19 deaths remains elusive after 5 years and lacking data further hobbles research
By Dylan Thomas Doyle, Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers struggled to grasp the rate of the virus’s spread and the number of related deaths. While hospitals tracked cases and...
Science over fiction: Why funding cuts to NIH will hit pro-Trump rural areas of red states hardest
By Prakash Nagarkatti, Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina; Mitzi Nagarkatti, Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina The National Institutes of Health is the largest federal...
