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25 Jun 2014, 10:35 am by Tara Hofbauer
The Washington Post notes that in his weekly televised address, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called for “a united national stance to defy terrorism. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 9:21 am by Steve Hall
In the United States, hanging was the punishment of choice until 1890, when New York State carried out the first execution with the electric chair - invented by a physician, touted for its humaneness by an oral surgeon and carried out secretly by Thomas Alva Edison. [read post]
13 May 2012, 2:33 pm by Richard Posner
But whatever the answer, the United States is not a theocracy and should hesitate to enact laws that serve religious rather than pragmatic secular aims, such as material welfare and national security. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 11:43 am
Carl Christol opens the section with a general background piece to international criminal law and the history of the United States and the ICC through the Kampala Conference. [read post]
14 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
What kind of country is this when the President of the United States does not demand the resignation of someone who, in retrospect, is responsible for the sexual abuse of dozens of children? [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 8:10 am by John Floyd
It has been said that if Texas was a country, it would have more people incarcerated than Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan combined. [read post]
16 Dec 2018, 9:30 pm by Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The United States has followed the wrong approach to marijuana regulation for 80 years. [read post]
27 Jan 2021, 9:04 am by Sasha Volokh
" The policy section before it is worth quoting in full: More than two million people are currently incarcerated in the United States, including a disproportionate number of people of color. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 4:02 pm by Guest Blogger
“This is a self-governing society, and you too must be preoccupied with statecraft. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 7:00 am by Sari Bashi
First, on the distinction between influence and control: We do not claim that every time a state exercises economic influence over a foreign territory – it occupies the territory. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 7:39 am by Yosi Yahoudai
Liliana’s Invincible Summer offers an example of how to start imagining ways to name collectively the forms of extreme violence our society suffers and to use the vocabulary of justice coined at the grassroots to grieve and claim justice for the victims of genocidal, gun, racial, and gender violence in the United States, too. [read post]
30 Aug 2009, 1:53 pm
The real concern for these elected officials is votes not human lives. [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 12:11 pm by Ilya Somin
West describes in his classic Education and the State, education levels in Britain and the United States were rapidly rising before the introduction of public schooling, which was largely motivated by a desire to indoctrinate students in government-approved religious and political views. [read post]
30 Mar 2020, 12:12 pm by Elliot Setzer
State Department; Nick Schifrin, Foreign Affairs Correspondent for PBS NewsHour. [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 5:13 am by Gary L. Francione
Certain secularists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens, often referred to as “New Atheists,” are the latest to tell us that we should look to rationality and science to figure out what to think about important moral issues. [read post]
4 May 2022, 9:05 am by Nwachukwu Egbunike
” But this approach betrays an ignorance of content moderation generally and how Twitter operates outside the United States specifically – especially within Sub-Saharan Africa where it has intertwined with politics and social movements – that is alarming for the potential new owner of Twitter. [read post]