On July 30, President Trump took to his favorite communication tool, Twitter. He posted: As with many of Trump’s comments, it’s difficult to tell whether or not he actually believes he has the power to delay the election, or if he’s simply kicking the beehive. Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the LaFollette […]
Feds Can’t Force Schools to Open
On July 30, 2020, at a press conference devoted to the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos renewed the Administration’s insistence that the nation’s public schools reopen for in-person classes this fall. Trump and DeVos backed their stance by claiming that children are not a significant vector for the transmission of the […]
Pandemic Hits State and Local Budgets
In July, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers announced that the state government would try to trim 250 million dollars from its 38 billion dollar current year.budget, blaming the shortfall on the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Wisconsin may be getting off easy, compared to other states. New York State, which is facing a 13 billion […]
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Treaty Rights
On July 9, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Jimcy McGirt, a member of the Seminole, could not be tried in an Oklahoma court, because McGirt’s alleged crime occurred in territory reserved to the Creek under an 1833 treaty. Aside from the impact on McGirt’s case, who could still be tried in federal […]
What We Did In Bed: A Horizontal History
We think of our beds, and our bedrooms, as the most intimate, personal part of our house. The bedroom is the room that is closed off if we have guests in our house, and inviting someone into your bedroom has certain… connotations. But it hasn’t always been thus. Throughout human history, beds were often more […]
Cheap Food is Not the Way to End World Hunger
In 2015, the United Nations set a goal of ending hunger worldwide by 2030. Five years into that project, the world is headed in the wrong direction. According to the U.N.’s latest report, “The State of Food Security and Nutrition 2020,” the percent of the world’s population who is undernourished grew for the fifth year […]
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