ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist, New York Times bestselling author, and a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her books include, ‘Area 51’, ‘Operation Paperclip’, and ‘The Pentagon’s Brain’. Watch the Video
Writers such as Stiglitz fail to refute the great conservative and libertarian thinkers. The deep political polarization in the United States has spilled over to the academic realm. Today’s progressive thinkers are determined to undermine the influence of the great conservative and libertarian thinkers—most notably John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. One prominent …
An African American named Homer Plessy predated Rosa Parks’ famous refusal to comply with racist transportation laws by more than 60 years. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction for sitting in a whites-only train car in Plessy v. Ferguson, leading to the Jim Crow era. Discover hard history and how “separate but equal” was far …
The recent elections for the European Parliament are the latest sign of the political potency of immigration. The elections’ biggest winners were right-wing parties that promised to reduce the flow of migration. In today’s newsletter, I’ll explain why this subject is shaping Western politics and what may happen next. Rapid change The first thing to …
October 7, 2023, was a watershed moment not just for Israel but for the Arab world. Hamas’s horrific attack occurred just as a new order appeared to be emerging in the region. Three years earlier, four members of the Arab League—Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—had launched processes to normalize their diplomatic …
The disunity that plagues America imposes high costs on the nation. A diverse citizenry must work together despite partisan differences to advance the common good, but disunity produces dysfunction. Citizens who distrust and not infrequently despise one another can hardly be expected to jointly pursue long-term goals or rely on one another to achieve short-term …
Do not expect the radical left to survey the wreckage of socialism and communism in history and accept that statism impoverishes people and erodes their freedoms. There will never be admissions by our elite that progressivism exists mainly for the acquisition of power by the utopian and virtue-signaling few, who ensure that they are never …
The circus spirit is strong in British politics. It makes a rowdy theatre of parliament and a clown-car parade of election campaigns. Every show is different to the extent that no two candidates are the same, but convention and a fixed repertoire of plots make for a familiar experience. There must be farce (hot microphone …
Stanford University Human Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) presentation on the social and economic ramifications of AI. Watch the Video
17 Goals for People, for Planet World leaders came together in 2015 and made a historic promise to secure the rights and well-being of everyone on a healthy, thriving planet when they adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Agenda remains the world’s roadmap for ending poverty, protecting the planet …