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21 Jul 2020, 10:58 am by Tia Sewell
In the 20th century, Xinjiang experienced fleeting periods of independence as a civil war was waged between the Nationalists (Kuomintang) and the Communists for control over China. [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
After all, one consequence of the culture wars has been splitting the progressive coalition, “creating the opportunity for a cruel authoritarian politics that was once unimaginable. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 9:00 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
But the mandate has been challenged repeatedly on grounds of religious freedom.The Strange New War on ContraceptionThe war over the contraceptive mandate is a reflection of larger tensions in society—and a strange arc in which an issue on which there was once broad societal consensus is now divisive. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 12:26 pm by Ediberto Roman
  She is a combat veteran who lost both of her legs in the Iraq War. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 9:00 am by Ezra Rosser
A crucial feature of the Black Codes enacted after the Civil War to comprehensively restrict freed black men and women were vagrancy statutes that provided the coercive apparatus for pushing freed black men and women into forced labor. [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 3:53 pm
He also campaigned for the rights of so-called comfort women, Korean sex slaves who were lured or forced to work in brothels for the Japanese Army during World War II. [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 3:53 am by Edith Roberts
” James Phillips at PrawfsBlawg explores the “warring views” on the religion clauses revealed by Justice Elena Kagan’s approach to the two cases. [read post]
8 Jul 2020, 11:35 am by Cassandra Maas
According to the report, the efforts of the pro-government forces caused Syrian children, women, and men to endure “unfathomable suffering,” in which hundreds of individuals were killed. [read post]
7 Jul 2020, 12:59 am by bethf
According to President Trump, “Veteran suicide is a tragedy this country started measuring in the decades following the Civil War, but one that sadly went unaddressed for generations. [read post]
5 Jul 2020, 9:10 am
You’re slandering the young men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima and those who perished fighting for freedom in the Civil War. [read post]
5 Jul 2020, 5:43 am by Annsley Merelle Ward
  In August 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment became part of the US Constitution giving women the right to vote, although it would be decades later when that right would be afforded to all women. [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On the contrary, they all continued to hold their negroes as slaves during the Revolutionary War. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 5:00 pm
Two black women, a mother and daughter, confront them – the claim is the motorist’s car grazed either the mother or daughter. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 10:15 am by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
For example, until the 1940s, Black midwives provided most prenatal and childbirth care to Black women in the United States—an essential service, at a time when many white doctors and midwives would have refused to care for them. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 9:48 am by Amy Howe
Two of the cases involve immunity for foreign governments and foreign officials from lawsuits in U.S. courts, arising from claims that date back to Nazi-era Germany and World War II. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 7:00 pm
We won the war with  men  who took advantage of younger women in relationships where the power was not equal. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 2:31 pm by Michele Goodwin
 Prior to the Civil War, abortion and contraceptives were legal in the U.S., used by Indigenous women as well as those who sailed to these lands from Europe. [read post]