ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
When World War I broke out across Europe in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the United States would remain neutral, and many Americans supported this policy of nonintervention. However, public opinion about neutrality started to change after the sinking of the British ocean liner Lusitania by a German U-boat in 1915; almost 2,000 people perished, including 128 …
Democrats in North Carolina are calling on a state lawmaker to resign after reports surfaced that Rep. Tricia Cotham (D) would switch parties to the GOP. The move, which Democrats described as a “deceit” and “betrayal,” would hand state Republicans a veto-proof supermajority in the state’s legislature, giving them greater power over issues like abortion …
Tennessee House Republicans on Monday filed resolutions to expel three Democrats for “disorderly behavior” after the trio led protest chants for gun reform on the floor of the chamber last week in the wake of the deadly Covenant School shooting. Read more
To the government and the people of Laos, thank you so much for the kind welcome that you’ve extended to me and my delegation. I am very honored to be the first American president to visit Laos. (Applause.) Thank you. I am told that this hall is where you come together for the national singing …
Ukrainian leaders in Kyiv and members of the Republican Party who’ve asked the Biden administration to release cluster munitions for use in Ukraine should beware of what they ask for. The results will be deadly and disastrous and will haunt the United States and the people of Ukraine for decades. I participated in the extensive bombing of Laos during America’s “secret …
The old saying “You are what you eat” takes on new significance in the most comprehensive analysis to date of early human teeth from Africa. Prior to about 3.5 million years ago, early humans dined almost exclusively on leaves and fruits from trees, shrubs, and herbs—similar to modern-day gorillas and chimpanzees. However, about 3.5 million …
The Texas state Senate Education Committee this week will take up a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be installed in every public school classroom, and another that would allow schools to hire pastors or chaplains instead of counselors. Read more
The Republican Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Cameron Sexton, on Monday stripped two Democratic state lawmakers from all their committees and subcommittees in retribution for their support of massive protests by thousands of Tennessee citizens at the state Capitol last week, after the Nashville elementary school mass shooting. He may move to expel …
The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok) There aren’t enough palm trees, the Soviet general thought to himself. It was July 1962, and Igor Statsenko, the 43-year-old Ukrainian-born commander of the Red Army’s missile division, found himself inside a helicopter, flying over central and western Cuba. …
A transgendered Tennessee mass shooter this week executed three adults and three nine-year-old children at a Nashville private Christian school. Supposedly she left behind her a manifesto justifying her mass murdering. As of this writing, law enforcement officials have declined to make the document public. Yet in about a nano-second after the news was disclosed, …