ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Much of the planet is swimming in discarded plastic, which is harming animal and possibly human health. Can it be cleaned up? Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues, as rapidly increasing production of disposable plastic products overwhelms the world’s ability to deal with them. Plastic pollution is most visible in developing …
he subjugation of indigenous people—and the exploitation of their land and resources—has a long and brutal history. Colonialism is defined as “control by one power over a dependent area or people.” It occurs when one nation subjugates another, conquering its population and exploiting it, often while forcing its own language and cultural values upon its people. By …
The hatred of Jews has ancient origins. Today the hatred goes by the abstract and antiseptic modern term “antisemitism.” It persists in pockets of the right. But in the United States and throughout the West, antisemitism receives most conspicuous expression among those who back progressive causes while supporting Iran-backed Hamas’ ambitions to destroy Israel, the …
Just before the start of 2024, the US Federal debt surpassed a new milestone: $34 trillion. In 2023 the US added $2.65 trillion in debt, the second largest annual increase in history after the 2020 increase of $4.5 trillion. Going back to 1995, Federal Debt has increased by just over $1 trillion per year, but …
What the Chinese Leader’s Father Taught Him About Dealing With Moscow (Joseph Torigian) On February 4, 2022, just before invading Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Beijing, where he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping signed a document that hailed a “no limits” partnership. In the two-plus years since, China has refused to condemn the …
America is back.” In the early days of his presidency, Joe Biden repeated those words as a starting point for his foreign policy. The phrase offered a bumper-sticker slogan to pivot away from Donald Trump’s chaotic leadership. It also suggested that the United States could reclaim its self-conception as a virtuous hegemon, that it could …
Our culture and technology today are the result of thousands of years of accumulated and remixed cultural knowledge. Summary: Cumulative culture — the accumulation of technological modifications and improvements over generations — allowed humans to adapt to a diversity of environments and challenges. But it is unclear when cumulative culture first developed during hominin evolution. …
Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA) – The Hoover Institution’s History Working Group, chaired by Milbank Family Senior Fellow Niall Ferguson, hosted its latest spring History Lab Symposium on May 14, 2024. This year’s theme was “Cold Wars.” In the Annenberg Conference Room of the newly constructed George P. Shultz Building, historians and academics from history-related fields convened to …
Unless Western governments confiscate all frozen Russian assets and give them to Ukraine, the Ukrainians will lose the war, and that outcome will be far more more costly for the West. G7 leaders should stop finding excuses, stop being dishonest with their own taxpayers, and just get it done. LONDON – If Ukraine is going …
Will America and China Heed the Warnings of Twentieth-Century Catastrophe? (Odd Arne Westad) In The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860–1914, the British historian Paul Kennedy explained how two traditionally friendly peoples ended up in a downward spiral of mutual hostility that led to World War I. Major structural forces drove the competition between Germany and Britain: …