Out of sight, out of mind: UN refugee chief worries the world has forgotten about the brutal war in Ukraine
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said in late January that that he was worried that the war in Ukraine has been forgotten, as the country prepares to mark two years since the start of Russia’s brutal full-scale invasion. UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi also...
Russia’s empire of lies: Why Putin is desperate to control the narrative of Ukrainian self-identity
By Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Associate Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University Controlling the narrative has long been crucial to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in his brutal war against Ukraine. In the worldview he...
Senator Ron Johnson tells Congress he sees no point in using taxpayer dollars to stop Putin in Ukraine
At about 2 a.m. on February 13, Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin stood on the Senate floor and explained why he opposed sending more aid to help Ukraine fend off the invasion launched in 2022 by Russian President Vladimir Putin. “A lot of the points...
What Made America Great was Hate: Trump promises massive domestic deportations if re-elected
On February 29, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 enabling military authorities to designate military areas from which “any or all persons may be excluded.” That order, drafted in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire...
Governor Evers signs his new legislative maps into law in effort to correct for years of GOP gerrymandering
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers signed new legislative district maps into law on February 19 that he proposed and that the Republicans, who dominate the Legislature after years of gerrymandering elections, passed to avoid having the liberal-controlled state Supreme...
Visual storytelling: Black communities are using mapping to restore their sense of place
By Joshua F.J. Inwood, Professor of Geography and Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State; Derek H. Alderman, Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee When historian Carter Woodson created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became...
Ireichō Day Of Remembrance: Monument to Japanese Americans detained during WWII lists 125,000 names
Samantha Sumiko Pinedo and her grandparents filed into a dimly lit enclosure at the Japanese American National Museum and approached a massive book splayed open to reveal columns of names. Pinedo was hoping the list included her great-grandparents, who were detained...
Justice Department improves accountability for tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement
The U.S. Justice Department has created a database to track records of misconduct by federal law enforcement officers that is aimed at preventing agencies from unknowingly hiring problem officers. The federal move is a step toward accountability amid growing calls to...
Revenue-motivated policing: When municipal courts set aside fairness in the pursuit of profits
By Sian Mughan, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, Arizona State University; and Akheil Singla, Assistant Professor at the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University When city governments spend more money than they take in, officials often search for ways...
A dangerous decade: Report says the world faces more instability ahead as military conflicts expand
The world has entered an era of increasing instability as countries around the globe boost military spending in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Hamas attack on Israel, and China’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea. That was the...
Israel’s ethnic diversity: Why the population of the Jewish nation is far from monolithic
By Jessica Trisko Darden, Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth University As the toll of the Israel-Hamas war continues to mount, Israeli military casualties are shedding new light on a topic that rarely gets international media attention,...
Reggie Jackson: Why the denial of Black oppression is growing as another false American narrative
“If some groups are simply meant to be at the bottom, then there are no questions to ask about their deprivation, isolation and poverty. There are no questions to ask about the society which produces that deprivation, isolation and poverty. And there is nothing to be...
