On August 12, 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. drove his Dodge Charger into a crowd of peaceful counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. One woman was killed and 19 others were injured. Despite President Trump’s lukewarm rebuttal of the violence, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, along with nearly every major politician, recognized the tragedy as an act of … Read more
Reporters describe babies being ripped out of mothers’ arms and burned alive, men and young boys being executed in front of their families, and women being raped and left to die in the ashes of their villages by Myanmar’s military forces. Six hundred twenty thousand people have been displaced, and two hundred eighty-eight villages have … Read more
American politics has been full of rhetoric and debates about the power of the federal government vis-à-vis state governments in recent years. In 2012, for example, then-Texas Governor Rick Perry claimed that South Carolina was “at war” with the federal government over its voter I.D. laws. In 2014, Representative Paul Ryan described Barack Obama’s administration … Read more