ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Encourage Defections Among Soldiers and Diplomats (Stephen E. Biegun and David J. Kramer) In the month since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, policymakers and analysts have stressed the lengths to which Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone to concentrate power in his own hands. But no matter how tight his control over Russia has become, …
The Underappreciated Resilience of Today’s Autocracies (Lucan Ahmad Way) Two thousand twenty-two was not a good year for the world’s leading autocracies. In November, Chinese President Xi Jinping confronted the largest antigovernment demonstrations since the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989. Provoked by Beijing’s stringent “zero COVID” policies, protesters across the country made overtly political demands, …
In its recent decision in Allen v. Milligan, the Supreme Court, to the evident surprise and pleasure of progressive commentators, handed down a five-to-four provision that sustained a racial-discrimination challenge brought by black voters in Alabama to a district map prepared by Alabama’s Republican Party. That map gave black voters, who compose about 27 percent of Alabama’s population, …
Earlier this month, South Carolina teacher Mary Wood was ordered by school administrators to “cease” teaching about the history of racism after two students complained that the topic offended them. “Students in an advanced placement language arts class at Chapin High School last spring were scheduled to read Between the World and Me, a 2015 memoir by …
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed a bill this week that keeps automakers using dealerships — with one notable exception for Elon Musk’s Tesla. The measure bans car manufacturers from selling directly to consumers in the state and instead requires them to rely on franchised dealerships. Read more
Anew study has found that both Christian nationalism and biblical literalism are independently associated with a greater tendency to believe in conspiracy theories. When people believed in both Christian nationalism and biblical literalism, their distrust of government officials increased significantly. The findings, published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, provide insight into the …
An Indigenous community in Indonesia has requested an internet blackout in their area to minimize the “negative impact” of the online world, officials said Friday. The Baduy, a community of 26,000 people in Banten province on Java island, divide themselves into an outer group that partly adopts technology, and a sacred inner group that shuns …
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday against an anti-abortion group whose members have been arrested for blocking access to health care clinics in New York and other states. The group, Red Rose Rescue, “has made it their mission to terrorize reproductive health care providers and the patients …
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state Republican convention gets underway Friday with Donald Trump still expected on Saturday, even as a right-wing party faction seeks to punish GOP officials it considers ideological traitors by banning them from future primary election ballots. Trump could feed an air of vengeance after announcing Thursday that he’s been indicted on charges of …
Texas has become the latest state to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth. On Friday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed the legislation, which says doctors cannot prescribe youth hormones or puberty blockers and cannot perform gender-affirming surgery on minors (something that is already extremely rare). It also says that any youth currently receiving such …