ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Through the decades, the right to vote in the U.S. has seen a massive change and expansion. Since America’s founding days, when voting was limited to white male property owners, to the transformative Voting Rights Act of 1965, to sweeping voting process reform introduced in the early 2000s, the right to vote in U.S. elections has seen …
On August 2, 1939, Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning of the potential development of “extremely powerful bombs” based on nuclear chain reactions in uranium. As reported by Time, this letter, drafted by physicist Leo Szilard with input from other émigré scientists, urged the U.S. to accelerate its own atomic …
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The Collected Works of Milton Friedman website contains more than 1,500 digital items by and about economist, Nobel Prize winner, and Hoover fellow Milton Friedman. The site features hundreds of Friedman’s articles, speeches, lectures, television appearances, and more. Explore this vast collection by clicking one of the options below or by entering keywords into the …
More than nine months into its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel now appears closer than ever to a second, even larger war with Hezbollah on its northern border. In June, the Israel Defense Forces announced that plans for a full-scale attack in southern Lebanon had been approved. And in mid-July, Hezbollah leader …
In June, Kenyans took to the streets to oppose government proposals to hike taxes. In doing so, they were also airing their bitter disappointment with President William Ruto, who swept into power two years ago after a tight electoral victory. Ruto had promised to lower the cost of living and increase job opportunities for young …
A Region in Name Only (Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs) For decades, policymakers and scholars have been trained in the West and elsewhere to think of the countries of the Indian subcontinent as part of a coherent region: South Asia. Home to around a quarter of the world’s population, the region consists of eight countries: Afghanistan, …
An Attempted Assassination of Trump Is Part of a Global Trend (Rachel Kleinfeld, Foreign Affairs) It is commonplace for Americans to assume that their country’s problems are sui generis. Since the July 13 assassination attempt against former U.S. President Donald Trump, many commentators have portrayed the event and the tensions around it as unprecedented. Others …
Liberalism, as it developed in the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies and flowered in the nineteenth, puts major emphasis onthe freedom of individuals to control their own destinies. Individualism is its creed; collectivism and tyranny its enemy. Thestate exists to protect individuals from coercion by other individuals or groups and to widen the range within which individualscan …