When wildfires burn, smoke can travel long distances and degrade air quality far away, posing risks to those breathing it.

It is the emergence of a status envy ideology that shapes how Americans interpret their own lives and measure themselves ...

Wisconsin’s eighth-place finish in the 2026 State of the States rankings offers the kind of headline any state would want. In ...

Over the last month, Democratic socialists have notched victories in the liberal strongholds of New York City, Washington DC, and Denver. Now Francesca Hong, a single mother who has worked as a ...

For children growing up in the early 1970s, Ultraman arrived without the prestige now attached to one of Japan’s most ...

Former Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan was spared from prison July 8 for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom to ...

That tension extended far beyond Washington and reached deep into Northern states such as Wisconsin, where Milwaukee emerged ...

Fireworks burst over the National Mall in the summer of 1976, as Americans marked the nation’s Bicentennial with parades, televised ceremonies, patriotic concerts, and a carefully constructed image of ...

The great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, the Chinese American at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case that established the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, called the June 30 ruling ...

The Deep Dive podcast by Milwaukee Independent takes a closer look at the stories that matter most, uncovering the layers of complexity behind today’s pressing issues. From groundbreaking research to ...

For years, tariff policy was sold politically as a penalty aimed at foreign competitors, particularly China, with repeated claims that overseas governments or manufacturers would absorb the economic ...

Wisconsin is ensnared in a fiscal trap of its own making, a consequence of relying on the taxation of human frailty to fund the apparatus of state government. For decades, the revenues harvested from ...