Human Rights & Democracy

Michael Abramowitz, President of Freedom House, spoke to the Club on August 4. Freedom House was co-founded byEleanor Roosevelt in 1941, as an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom and democracy in the world. It is best known for its work documenting the threats to freedom through a series of annual surveys … Read more

If you don’t believe that human beings are of equal spiritual value then you don’t have to care whether they get treated equally in terms of the COVID pandemic. And since the premise of government safety net programs is equality, if you are as fanatically opposed to government as Trump and his officials are, then … Read more

John Bolton’s revelations include President Trump telling Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a 2019 G20 meeting in Osaka, that he supported Xi’s building concentration camps for the Uyghur ethnic group. Now that Bolton’s book with that revelation is coming out, Trump has rushed to call for sanctions in the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of … Read more

As almost 100,000 people have lost their lives to COVID-19, Trump’s expression of sorrow has been negligible. Moreover, the disease is taking a terrible toll on the people who are working to save lives. The list for this lack of empathy could begin with the Princess Cruise Line ship that Trump wanted to prevent from … Read more

Joe Biden won overwhelmingly in the South Carolina Democratic Party primary February 27, having plummeted to as low as fourth place in the first three democratic party primaries. The result was a great Super Tuesday. A result of his great Super Tuesday was that major primary opponents dropped out of the primary race and endorsed … Read more

We Americans may have a free press—but there is less of it. A lot less of it. According to one reputable academic source, 1800 local papers have closed since 2004, and nearly a third of local papers are owned by 25 companies. Reporting in the media industry has to focus on the bottom line of … Read more

It is hard to think of a greater de-legitimization of President Trump than his impeachment by the House of Representatives, but we must do more to ensure that the broad American public accepts the Impeachment articles, delivered and taken up in the Senate under the provisions of the Constitution. It is essential that Trump not … Read more