Milwaukee Independent

This episode explores how America’s interstate highway system and the rise of the algorithmic internet followed remarkably similar paths, both promoted as revolutionary tools of connection, freedom, and democratization...

Milwaukee County and the City of Milwaukee formally launched Pride Month on June 1 with a joint raising of the Intersex Progress Pride flag outside the Milwaukee County Courthouse, presenting the ceremony as a...

This episode explores how Milwaukee is being positioned as a potential climate refuge, and how it is expected to see an influx of migration because of its freshwater access and distance from the nation's most severe...

This episode explores how Milwaukee's CONNECT 1 line emerged as Wisconsin's flagship Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, only to see its next phase shelved as fiscal pressures forced a choice between expansion and...

This episode explores how Milwaukee's refugee communities have transformed the city's cultural and civic fabric over generations, building enduring institutions even when formal municipal support remained limited. The...

This episode explores how Milwaukee confronts its deepening demographic and fiscal crossroads, with steady population loss colliding with mounting budget pressures that test the region's long-term stability. The episode...

This episode explores how tensions between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan took shape over more than a century of imperial transition, civil war, Cold War alignment, and the emergence of a distinct Taiwanese...

This episode explores how a return to Japan in 2026, three decades after a formative 1996 trip, reshaped a Milwaukee journalist's understanding of memory, place, and the slow arrival of perspective. As detailed in the...

This episode explores what Taiwan's democracy costs to sustain and what that weight means for the diaspora communities who carry it with them into cities like Milwaukee. As detailed in the article "What Taiwan's...

This episode explores how an experimental collaboration between human oversight and machine reasoning examines the question of God through logic, evidence, and the historical record rather than belief. As detailed in...

This episode explores how contemporary right-wing Christianity in the United States departs from the biblical standards it claims to uphold, replacing compassion with political power and turning faith into a tool of...

This episode explores how the modern Christian Right emerged not from theological revival but from a coordinated political effort to resist Civil Rights reforms and preserve White-only schooling. As detailed in the...

This episode explores how the 1942 classic "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis offers a strikingly relevant lens for understanding the moral atmosphere of Milwaukee under Donald Trump’s second term. As detailed in the...

This episode explores how decades of conservative rhetoric surrounding the Second Amendment collapse under the reality of an authoritarian government they once claimed firearms were meant to resist. As detailed in the...

This episode explores how the Republican-led culture wars of the Trump era draw a direct throughline from the Confederacy’s legacy to today’s political conflicts. As detailed in the piece "Republican-led Culture Wars...