ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The U.S. announcement in January that it would send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine has upped the ante with Moscow without achieving tangible operational effects. It will take at least a year before the tanks are delivered, with one U.S. official explaining to the Washington Post that they are “probably not for the near fight.” This will give Moscow time …
With the world’s largest economy, hundreds of overseas military bases, and leadership positions in various international institutions, the United States is an undeniable global power. Read more
The United States is the world’s most powerful country by far, with a globe-spanning network of alliances and military bases. It’s practically unrecognizable from the way the country began — and, indeed, what many early Americans thought it would be. The above video tells the story of how America changed from an insular former colony …
Are human lives worth living? And, if so, is life worth living unconditionally – or are there conditions attached? The philosophical debate about these profound and uncomfortable questions has a long history, going back to ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. Much of what the ancients had to say about these issues is bound to alienate a …
Enlightenment philosophers were vexed that their expanding empirical science of the external, material world collided with long-standing religious and moral traditions premised solely on internal, a priori knowledge. But for Immanuel Kant, the ‘sensible world’ of appearances emerged from cognitive faculties of the human mind, constitutive of observations gained through human experience. ‘We can cognize of things a …
Women’s rights have gone ‘too far’, say majority of Gen Z and millennials, study shows (Blathnaid Corless) Women’s rights have gone too far, the majority of Generation Z and millennials believe, according to a new research. Some 52 per cent of Gen Z and 53 per cent of millennials say society has gone so far …
World War I commonly brings to mind scenes of Europe in conflict—the first Battle of the Marne, the siege of Verdun, and the bloody struggle of The Somme, as well as the brutal slog of trench warfare on the Western Front. But the first bullet of the war in late July 1914 wasn’t actually fired in Europe. Instead, as Byron Farwell notes …
No large-scale society operates under unanimity rules. Consequently, in real world democracies, some interests win and some lose in normal policy making. But at a minimum, democracy demands that all significant interests have a chance to be heard—to have a seat at the table. The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic raises questions about whether that …
Tribal sovereignty has, for many years, been the subject of much debate amongst historians, legislators and members of the legal community. The questions of tribal sovereignty emerged in the early 1800’s in a trilogy of cases commonly referenced as “The Marshall Trilogy”. Although these cases were rooted in territorial discussions one question that the Court …
In the modern era, tribes have made tremendous gains in retaining — and reclaiming — their sovereignty.1× But despite this external progress, some tribes have struggled to overcome internal governance challenges. One such challenge is presented by “IRA constitutions”: those constitutions either passed in the period shortly after adoption of the federal Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) in 1934 or …