A censure can come form any governing body, including the U.S. Congress. In a censure, a formal document will be written up, describing the offense and expressing disapproval. If the censure wins a majority of votes when it is brought to the vote, it will be entered in the record. If...
“Restorative justice is a contemporary justice mechanism to address crime, disputes, and bounded community conflict. The mechanism is a meeting (or several meetings) of affected individuals, facilitated by one or more impartial people. Meetings can take place at all phases of the criminal process,...
To retract (something stated or written). take down 1. To bring to a lower position from a higher one. 2. To take apart; dismantle: take down the Christmas tree. 3. To lower the arrogance or the self-esteem of (a person): really took him down during the debate. 4. To put down...
Fast forward, and travel is a little different than it was in 1872—thankfully, no longer relegated solely to wealthy explorers whirling around the world on a whim. At AFAR, we have long believed in the power of stories that take you places, and so we thought there was no better time ...
I do not wish to dive too deeply into the possibility of conspiracy, as that itself would require A LOT more coverage than this post, but I do want to say that the Warren Commission was quite incomplete and this is due not only to some self-imposed limitations by Chairman Earl Warren, ...
But I think one of the things that should come out of this result, as my friend DeRay Mckesson said, is that who the president is does matter. You cannot local election your way to a representative democracy and think you’re going to be OK. For the young people out there who a...
Oath (n.) A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the temple, the altar, the blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc. Oath (n.) An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the pa...
I went after him into a low unlit passage, at the back of which a ladder-like staircase rose into obscurity. On our right a line of light marked the door of the room which had sent its ray across the night; and behind the door I heard a woman's voice droning querulously. From ...
As Robert Kagan of the Brookings Instituteput it in a Washington Post column,“In the Declaration of Independence, which Abraham Lincoln recognized as the quintessential statement of American nationalism, there is not a word about culture, color or Christi...
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