Author: Insights

With Donald Trump’s return to the White House in 2025, his political base has emerged as one of the most studied and polarizing forces in American political history. Hardened through years of social upheaval, conspiracy rhetoric, and loyalty tests, the voting bloc, known as the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, has evolved into a subculture marked by deep emotional identification with Trump, rejection of institutional legitimacy, and a worldview shaped less by shared policy preferences than by a shared sense of grievance and defiance. Journalists, scholars, and political observers have spent years attempting to parse what animates the...

In Milwaukee, where legacies of housing discrimination still shape economic opportunity and public health, a quieter but equally consequential form of infrastructure inequality persists: digital redlining. Despite national attention on the racial and economic gaps in broadband access, granular reporting specific to Milwaukee remains limited, even as data sources reveal stark disparities aligned with neighborhood demographics. Digital redlining, the practice by internet service providers of systematically underinvesting in high-speed internet infrastructure in low-income or predominantly minority communities, has long been suspected in Milwaukee. Now, layered data from federal maps, corporate filings, and digital equity assessments support what residents in...