ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The protection of fundamental human rights was a foundation stone in the establishment of the United States over 200 years ago. Since then, a central goal of U.S. foreign policy has been the promotion of respect for human rights, as embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Supporting democracy not only promotes such fundamental …
AMBASSADOR HAMMER: Thank you. Hopefully now you can hear me. A little technical glitch. Thank you very much, Tiffany, for arranging this media hub call, and thank you all for participating, whether here in the United States, around the continent, or wherever you may be. I hope over the course of my tenure I get a …
In an interview with CNN, the former director of the USOffice of Government Ethics dismantled a letter issued by the Supreme Court in response to accusations that several justices are engaging in law-breaking by claiming to be above the Ethics inGovernment Act. Speaking with CNN’s Zachary Wolf, legal expert Walter Schuab took issue with the arrogance …
Idaho already had some of the strictest laws against abortion, but this one might take the cake. House Bill 242 passed the state House and is on its way to the Senate. The bill will ban minors from traveling to another state for an abortion. This could cause a disaster. Read more
Montana’s governor on Friday enacted a Republican-backed ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender children, days after a transgender lawmaker protesting the bill was barred from the floor of the state legislature, sparking a national furor. Read more
In an open letter to President Droupadi Murmu, a group of former judges, IPS officers, and bureaucrats “request for intervention for saving of Indian cultural traditions, religious tenets and social values.” “…If we revise the law to make same-sex sexual union rational, acceptable or moral, it will open the doors to same-sex sexual culture. Our …
The debate around free will has been raging for millennia and, frankly, isn’t likely to be settled any time soon. But, as this short documentary from BBC Reel demonstrates, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a debate worth having. By interviewing leading thinkers across neuroscience, physics and moral philosophy, the UK journalist Melissa Hogenboom investigates where …
The ancient philosophy of monism and the physics of quantum entanglement agree: all that exists is one unified whole. From all things One and from One all things,’ wrote the Greek philosopher Heraclitus some 2,500 years ago. He was describing monism, the ancient idea that all is one – that, fundamentally, everything we see or experience is …
American Power’s Staying Power (Stephen G Brooks and William C. Wohlforth) In the 1990s and the early years of this century, the United States’ global dominance could scarcely be questioned. No matter which metric of power one looked at, it showed a dramatic American lead. Never since the birth of the modern state system in …
Kyiv Needs the Alliance and the Alliance Needs Kyiv (Dmytro Kuleba) On April 4, I sat at the great round table inside NATO’s headquarters in Brussels and applauded as Finland was formally admitted to the alliance. I am happy for my Finnish friends, and I welcome this shift in the tectonic plates of European security. …