On December 1 2008, Supreme Court judge, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, an advocate of abortion who cites anti-slavery laws to protect women’s’ autonomy, spoke at a synagogue in Washington DC about her Jewish heritage. “The change in US acceptance of Jews can be seen on the Supreme Court where ...
Many LGBT Jews feel they must choose between their Jewish and sexual identities, since some Jewish institutions, particularly the more traditional and Orthodox, reject the viability of an LGBT lifestyle. Even when they join an inclusive Jewish group, conflicting elements in their identity...
Library of Congress 4. The Great Purge In 1936, Stalin initiated "The Great Purge," aiming to rid the Communist Party of some of his biggest detractors and rivals. Hundreds of thousands of people initially were arrested by Stalin's NKVD (the secret police). Many were executed or sent ...
In 1972, it seemed ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment was all but a sure thing. First introduced to Congress in 1923 by suffragist Alice Paul, the proposed 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which stated "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by ...
But the biggest deception came during the Cold War, when the government sought a suitable location for an underground bunker to house members of Congress in the event of a nuclear holocaust. Once again, Uncle Sam looked to The Greenbrier as a solution. To keep the project a secret, bunker ...
Beginning in the early 1900s, governments started intervening to protect the working class from the owner class. In the U.S., Congress passed laws that madechild laborillegal, capped the length of the work day and banned monopolies. To some, the anti-trust laws of the 1920s seemed to go...
“Donald Trump believes a border deal would hurt his campaign, so he ordered his allies in Congress to kill the deal,” Harris said, vowing to bring the deal back and “sign it into law.” But, she added, “we can create a pathway to citizenship and secure our border.”...
Many, though not all, terrorists exhibit a lack of empathy for the suffering of others, which may be signs of antisocial personality disorder or psychopathy [source: Wilson]. Overall, however, the dichotomy of "us vs. them" serves terrorist efforts perfectly. The more foreign and dehumanized ...
when he went to the uaw strikes. and there are so many opportunities like that where he did unique things. the bar is very low for democrats, there is no bar for the republicans, it's already in hell, but the bar is very, very low for the democrats, and he did clear it on ...
Humans are wired for romance for many reasons, but in part because our DNA is driving us toward a path of becoming loving parents who care diligently for our helpless offspring (whether or not we choose to fulfill that destiny is of course another story, but our drive to love remains, ...