ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The Texas state Senate Education Committee this week will take up a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be installed in every public school classroom, and another that would allow schools to hire pastors or chaplains instead of counselors. Read more
The Republican Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Cameron Sexton, on Monday stripped two Democratic state lawmakers from all their committees and subcommittees in retribution for their support of massive protests by thousands of Tennessee citizens at the state Capitol last week, after the Nashville elementary school mass shooting. He may move to expel …
The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok) There aren’t enough palm trees, the Soviet general thought to himself. It was July 1962, and Igor Statsenko, the 43-year-old Ukrainian-born commander of the Red Army’s missile division, found himself inside a helicopter, flying over central and western Cuba. …
A set of polls show substantial shift in Americans’ preference for selected values over the last 25 years (since 1998). Watch the Video
The news has reported accusations of discrimination against white people in universities and workplaces; whether or not reverse discrimination exists; activists say America is obsessed with race. Watch the Video
Republican lawmakers in Texas proposed a bill (Senate Bill 1993) that would enable the secretary of state to overturn election results in counties that have one million residents or more. Read more