Category: Explainers
The Struggle for America’s Soul: From Confederate sabotage to Trump’s undermining of Democracy
The United States has always been an experiment in ideals. Whether Americans have lived up to them...
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Oligarchic system from 1920s now drives America toward a “Rollerball” vision of corporate rule
Corporate supremacy first dragged the United States to economic devastation nearly a century ago,...
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Trump’s Arctic land grab: What Milwaukee’s role in a U.S. military invasion of Greenland would look like
The reelection of Donald Trump signaled an unmistakable pivot in global geopolitics, one that has...
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Legalism over Grace: How the Ten Commandments debate distorts Christianity for political gain
The debate surrounding the display of the Ten Commandments in public spaces has become a symbol of...
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3.11 Revisited: A look back at Milwaukee Independent’s 2024 Fukushima series on its 14th anniversary
In April 2024, “Milwaukee Independent” published a series of in-depth interviews,...
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If the unthinkable happened: Imagining the aftermath from a catastrophic eruption of Japan’s Mt. Fuji
In the realm of iconic landscapes, Mount Fuji stands among the most photographed and revered in...
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