ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
That all democracies have, by their very nature, the potential to destroy themselves is a fact too rarely documented by the acolytes of democracy. Indeed, in the brief decades since Joseph Goebbels, then as Reich Minister of Propaganda, reminded the world that it ‘will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it …
Was there a curse of the Constitution? Alexander Hamilton was famously killed by Aaron Burr in 1804, but he wasn’t even the first framer of the U.S. Constitution to die in a duel with a political rival. In 1802, North Carolina delegate Richard Spaight was mortally wounded by a dueling pistol fired by sitting congressman John Stanly. Four years later, Virginian George Wythe …
May 20 (UPI) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is attempting to disqualify the federal judge overseeing a lawsuit filed against him by the Walt Disney Company, a new court filing indicated. The Republican governor’s lawyers filed the motion Friday in U.S. District Court in Tallahassee, asking to have Judge Mark Walker removed from the lawsuit. Read more
The first time I was in China, I became one of her lost girls. As I was taken from my birth mother’s arms and placed at a nearby train station, I became a statistic ― another baby uprooted by the country’s one-child policy. At 11 months old, I was plucked from China’s embrace and placed …
An advocacy is pressing the University of Minnesota’s Office of Undergraduate Studies after the taxpayer-funded university program opened its paid undergraduate internship program application to only non-white applicants. The Equal Protection Project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation is calling for the University of Minnesota (UMN) to change its application process and open its summer internship programs to …
“ፈተናዎችን ወደ እድል በመቀየር ሕዝባችንን እናሻግራለን” በሚል መሪ ቃል ከግንቦት 10-12/2015 ዓ.ም በአማራ ክልል ወቅታዊ ሁኔታዎች እና የቀጣይ የመፍትሔ አቅጣጫዎች ላይ ሲመክር የቆየው ኮንፍረንስ ባለ ዘጠኝ ነጥብ የአቋም መግለጫ በማውጣት ተጠናቋል። ኮንፈረንሱ ለፓርቲው ከፍተኛ እና መካከለኛ አመራሮች በክልሉ ወቅታዊ ሁኔታዎችና ቀጣይ የመፍትሔ አቅጣጫዎች ላይ የጋራ ግንዛቤ ለመገንባት የተዘጋጀ መድረክ መሆኑ ይታወሳል። በኮንፈረንሱ ማጠቃለያ የብልጽግና ፓርቲ …
As COVID-19 spread across the United States in 2020, among the wide-ranging efforts to insulate the country from the pandemic was Title 42, a restrictive immigration policy allowing the rapid expulsion of asylum seekers and other migrants. The measure — initially implemented by the Trump administration and expanded under President Joe Biden — expired this month. The …
Anew law in Florida mandates the teaching of Asian American and Pacific Islander history in public schools. But many Asian Americans are not celebrating, pointing to how other marginalized communities are being impacted by the state heavily limiting the instruction of systemic racism and gender identity in the classroom. Read more
Not long ago, a Tennessee state representative named Justin J. Pearson delivered a familiar-sounding speech at a meeting of the Shelby County Board of Commissioners. Pearson had recently taken part in a gun-control protest on the floor of the state’s House, in violation of legislative rules. He and a fellow-representative were expelled, but the commissioners in Shelby voted …
Six million Jews murdered. Millions more stripped of their livelihoods, their communities, their families, even their names. The horrors of the Holocaust are often expressed in numbers that convey the magnitude of Nazi Germany’s attempt to annihilate Europe’s Jews. The Nazis and their collaborators killed millions of people whom they perceived as inferior—including Jehovah’s Witnesses, …