It is well known that adequate housing is a fundamental human right. With the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the right to adequate housing was formally added to the international body of universally applicable and universally accepted human rights law. …
In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd in 2020, which sparked the largest national protest against police brutality in the United States in the 21st century, a slogan began to spread in unison among protesters: “Defund the Police.” According to a June 2020 poll, 72 percent of…
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Global warming from greenhouse gas emissions is slowly making society more aware of the fact that humans must stop burning fossil fuels, but getting rid of dependence on oil is an extremely complex and serious process. In addition to changes in lifestyle…
Haiti, an island nation located in the Caribbean Sea, does not share a land border with the United States or Mexico.
However, citizens of such a country have chosen to flee Haiti in droves in the last decade or so, and have started to migrate or seek asylum in the…
On August 31, 2021, the last C-17 cargo plane carrying the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and several U.S. military officers took off from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. The 20-year U.S. war in Afghanistan came to an official end. The evacuation came just days after the terrorist group Islamic State…
Ever since Roe V. Wade (1973), which decided that the U.S. Constitution grants women the freedom to have abortions, many dissatisfied citizens and political figures have never given up trying to overturn the decision. And with the passage of time and a Supreme Court that is leaning rightward after President…
Robert ‘’Yummy” Sandifer had a miserable childhood. Born on the South Side of Chicago, he had a father who had been incarcerated for gun crimes for most of his childhood and a mother who was frequently arrested for drug-related and prostitution-related crimes. By the age of three, the local Child…
On Tuesday, August 10, New Yorkers and Americans across the country watched on television what they could not have imagined a year ago: the state’s Governor, Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat known for being overbearing and unbeatable and had extensive political credentials and numerous party allies, announced at a press conference…
The United States in 2021 is facing an unprecedented drought crisis.
According to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Drought Monitor Program, as of July 7, 93% of the land in seven western U.S. states was under drought conditions, while nearly 59% was in the most severe “exceptional drought”. …
With the joint decision by the U.S. and Taliban’s leaders to implement the Doha Agreement, which was reached by a slim consensus in 2020, U.S. forces have been withdrawing combat troops from Afghanistan. The U.S. armed forces have been stationed in this landlocked and unstable nation for 20 years now…
