by The Conversation | Feb 22, 2023 | Human Rights & Justice
Over 8 million Ukrainians have fled their homeland during this past year of war since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. To me, these are not just numbers. My family and friends are among them. I am a Ukrainian American political scientist. As a specialist in...
by Marty Kassowitz | Feb 20, 2023 | Human Rights & Justice
Has anyone noticed in the past few years and that pillars of our rights outlined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights have been reduced to buzzwords? Let’s start with the First Amendment. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of...
by The Conversation | Feb 12, 2023 | Human Rights & Justice
In the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting on Valentine’s Day 2018, many Americans hoped that, finally, something would be done to address the problem of gun violence in the nation’s schools. Despite the outpouring of grief and calls for action...
by Common Dreams | Feb 3, 2023 | Human Rights & Justice
The right-wing 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday struck down a federal law barring people with domestic violence restraining orders from owning firearms, a ruling that gun control advocates said will cost lives. A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based...
by Common Dreams | Jan 20, 2023 | Human Rights & Justice
To end an era in which wealthy corporations have been given free rein to spend nearly unlimited money on political campaigns, Democrats in the U.S. House on Thursday proposed a constitutional amendment that would overturn the hugely consequential Citizens United v....
by KFF Health News | Jan 14, 2023 | Human Rights & Justice
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday sued the six major companies that dominate the U.S. insulin market, ratcheting up the state’s assault on a profitable industry for artificially jacking up prices and making the indispensable drug less accessible for...
