ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Nearly two years after a federal judge said that Louisiana’s congressional map diluted Black voting power, Black voters are at risk of voting for a second time in an election under a plan that likely violates the Voting Rights Act. In response to the judge’s ruling, the state’s Republican legislature had created a second majority-African …
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For years now, policymakers have sought an explanation for the mental health crisis among young people. Suicide attempts and psychiatric hospitalizations were rising even before the pandemic. Then the rates of anxiety and depression doubled worldwide. Why is this happening? The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt points to smartphones, and the algorithms that draw kids away …
The Netherlands is a high-performing democracy, exhibiting high levels of performance across all attributes of the Global State of Democracy Indices(GSoDI). Over the past five years, it has only seen a notable decline in the Effective Parliament sub-attribute (which still remains in the high-performingrange). Shortcomings in parliamentary scrutiny, particularly in the Childcare Allowance Case (known …
The present study has tried to delineate the notion of ‘santosh’ (contentment) in the everyday discourse taking gender variations anddevelopmental stages into consideration. The study was groups of young adults, older people and saints (N = conducted on sub =100). The data were obtained through an open-ended measure pertaining to different experiences related to contentment. …
In our relentless pursuit of happiness, the concept of being content can often seem overshadowed by our desires for more—more money, more status, more possessions. Yet, the essence of true contentment lies not in the abundance of goods or in the applause of peers, but in the simple joys and peaceful acceptance of life as …
The Vietnam War saw the United States military draft approximately 1.9 million service personnel into their ranks from 1954 to 1975. The process, known as conscription or the draft, has been carried out in the US through the Selective Service System (SSS) since 1917. This raises questions about whether Americans could potentially be drafted into a hypothetical World War …
The policy is both unworkable and irrelevant. I doubt the Rwanda scheme will have much impact on the migrant boats crossing the Channel, let alone the outcome of the next election. But like the poll tax and the demise of Thatcher, it will have a big impact on the narrative as to why this government …
What if Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper company didn’t just hack phones to get a scoop, but targeted elected politicians—right to the very top—in pursuit of its business ambitions? One February afternoon in 2010, the Guardian published on its website a call from the Liberal Democrats’ home affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne, for a judicial inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal. …
It’s hard to imagine punchy advertising campaigns having the same impact on voters as they used to. Britain in the late 1970s was a bleak place. By 1978 unemployment had reached record postwar heights of up to 6 per cent. Between November that year and the following March, the United Kingdom saw its most pervasive …