ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced she replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book, written by a nationally recognized education group, that the Republican governor denounced as teaching “woke concepts” because of language about inclusion and structural racism. Read more
In recent years, the Christian nationalist movement — an extreme ideology that holds America should be ruled by Christian law — has become bolder as it makes a play for power. A new group is even emerging to introduce Christian nationalist legislation in statehouses around the country. Read mroe
The NATO chief said Friday that members agree that Ukraine will eventually join the decades-old military alliance, which would deliver another blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hopes of preventing alliance expansion. Read more
Two hundred years ago, the poets and philosophers of the Romantic movement came to an intoxicating thought: art can express the otherwise inexpressible conditions that make everyday sense and experience possible. Art, the Romantics said, is our interface with the real patterns and relations that weave up the world of rational thought and perception. And, …
Nathan Harshman: Quantum mechanics tells us that within materialism – the idea that nothing exists except matter and its movements – there are uncertainties that do not derive from our ignorance but are fundamental to matter and the laws that govern it. In this view, uncertainty is an uneradicable feature of our physical world. Read more
Evidence of warming temperatures have been detected as early as the 1830s. The First Industrial Revolution was a period of scientific and technological development that lasted from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century. Much of this development took place in European countries, European colonies and the United States. This period seems to have also marked a new uptick in …
On April 22, 1970, a nationwide “teach-in” inspired millions of Americans to care more about the environment. During the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of young Americans rejected the stable, comfortable middle-class life their parents had built in the years after World War II, driven instead by a spirit of rebellion that would leave a lasting impact on …
The Survival of the West and the Demands of the Rest (David Miliband) Ukraine has united the world,” declared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a speech on the first anniversary of the start of the war with Russia. If only that were true. The war has certainly united the West, but it has left the …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Transgender athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth was male would be barred from competing on girls or women’s sports teams at federally supported schools and colleges under legislation pushed through Thursday by House Republicans checking off another high-profile item on their social agenda. Read more
Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) has sent Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts a strongly-worded invitation to testify over his “decade-long failure” to fix the ethics problems he and his justices have created which have created a “crisis of public confidence,” but several Republican Senators are warning against him appearing. Read more