As June 30, 1982, drew to a close and the Equal Rights Amendment expired unratified, American women did not riot in the streets. They did wipe the asses of children and put them to bed, lurk on streetcorners warily until a car circled and slowed and they got in, finish typing the la...
Most egregious was that Anthony Fauci at the NIAID and other federal officials had full knowledge that other FDA-approved drugs existed that could effectively treat Covid-19 infections. The antiparasitic and antiviral drug Ivermectin best stands out. Ivermectin was first introduced to the market in ...
Suddenly, it seemed, the ERA was having its moment. The National Organization of Women vigorously promoted the amendment. Women organized huge demonstrations in its favor. It worked: In 1972, both houses of Congresspassedthe amendment. It sailed through the House, picking up a 93.4percentmajority...
Another was the US debt ceiling ping-pong negotiations, which reduced investor confidence as Congress prevented a national default for an additional two years. With an agreement, the US Treasury embarked on a $1.1 trillion borrowing binge, which was made more challenging by China's absence, ...
The early 1770s were an era of increasing tension, with Britain increasingly trying to impose its will on the increasingly bold and independent colonies. Following the imposition of the Intolerable Acts, which were in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party, the First Continental Congress was convene...
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Leaping forward to the era immediately after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia and Iran became allies, defending common ownership as a legal regime for the Caspian. For instance, in 1996 Moscow and Tehran worked together to convince the other states that the Caspian was just a large...
That impression was ratified a few months later at the fall 2022 Balenciaga show in Paris, mounted as Russian tanks crossed the border into Ukraine. Once a refugee himself—from the former Soviet republic of Georgia—Demna opened by reading a poem in Ukrainian, and gifted everyone in attendance...
Like all Swiss constitutions it was ratified by popular referendum and has been amended more than thirty times over the past century. Swiss constitutions are not sacrosanct pieces of ancient parchment but a form of running record of the decisions of the voters. ...
The use of chemical weapons in war is banned under theGeneva Protocolof 1925, which states that parties "will exert every effort to induce other States to accede to the" agreement. Iraq never ratified the protocol; the United States did in 1975. TheChemical Weapons Convention, which bans the...