“In recent years, and even decades, too many people have forgotten that truth. They’ve forgotten that our ancestors trounced an empire, tamed a continent and triumphed over the worst evils in history.”

Sorry to reply to you again, but just to add that Meryl Streep’s husband is a very well regarded artist in his own right. No one gets bent out of shape that he is identified as Meryl Streep’s husband when he is somewhere with her when it is not about his work. If Amal were photographed working or in other contexts,…

In the context of why they are at a royal wedding, there is nothing wrong with saying the truth of the invitation- it is George Clooney, actor, and his wife, human rights lawyer, Amal Clooney. Not the other way round. Sorry, but I think this is really ridiculous.

There are a few- Gloria Allred, Johnny Cochran was. The point is that this article makes it sound like Amal was invited to this wedding because of she is a world famous “human rights” lawyer and that everyone is so interested in her in that role and not her ‘husband’ who shouldn’t even be mentioned by name,…

The point is that she is in the news because she’s married to a super famous actor- her husband, George Clooney. She is not and never was “famous” for her legal work and pretending otherwise is dishonest. Look. This is not a slam on Amal- she is from all I know incredibly intelligent and a good lawyer. She also was…

Amal Clooney is a very impressive person, no doubt. However, her human rights legal work is not really all that impressive- clerking for Sotomayor, though? Heck yeah. I realise that this is a site mainly read by Americans who are not familiar with the various human rights fields (with practicing lawyers! There’s…

Yes, but then he used the 6 month waiver (provided in the law) for security reasons to not do it. As did Clinton and GW Bush. I should clarify- moving the embassy has been US law since the 1990s, it’s not about a promise really.

Good call. I responded too quickly before noticing that this person made the same comment in another spot on this article. Should have just dismissed. Next time! : )

It has been US law since the 1990s (the Jersusalem Embassy Act), but the law allowed the President to delay the move for 6 months by waiver for security reasons. So, for the past 20 years, all Presidents have signed waivers, while supporting in abstract the move. Every President since Clinton (including Obama)…

That was actually in my original comment, but I ended up deleting it because it seemed too aggressive.

If my comment depresses you, then I think you are the one who needs to go to therapy. Such an outsized emotional response to a comment regarding the meaning of a term? A term which anyone with a passing understanding of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict would recognise and should be able to discuss without being…

Palestinians are calling it“Nakba day,” or, “catastrophe day,” the Guardian reports.

Close the circle!

I really don’t know enough about how it works, but is it possible that AT&T, Novartis, and even Broidy’s payments were purposefully put into this LLC’s account in order to launder the Russian money? Like they were the ‘legit’ (using this loosely!) clients that I guess would be necessary to pass through the Russian…

For AT&T and Novartis, I think that what is currently known would not count as bribery or any crime for that matter. There isn’t really any legal significance to it, but politically it is exactly the ‘swamp’ that Trump pretends to be against. It’s the height of hypocrisy. Not that I expect any of his supporters to…

Exactly! Not that I have any sympathy for them, but what I would give to hear the reaction at AT&T when they saw this. Wait, wait! We were only trying to grease the wheels for our merger- nothing about laundering Russian money and mistress payoffs! Haha, makes me laugh. : )

What’s absolutely amazing is the mingling of funds in this one account. It’s mind blowing. Had Cohen simply created a different account for his mistress pay offs, Avenatti would have nothing. Instead, Cohen’s basically put all his completely unrelated criminal activities at risk of discovery by virtue of using the…

And they say he did no legal or lobbying work for them. $200,000 for what exactly, AT&T?!?! This whole thing is completely unbelievable.

Reparations can be for many harms, it’s not either/or at all. There can be reparations for slavery, for Jim Crow laws, government discrimination, and for the disparate effect of criminalising marijuana on minority and black communities. Reparations are meant to remedy or repair harms caused by human rights violations.…

Monae is exactly right. Free thought in itself carries no intrinsic correctness. People freely think all types of hateful, racist, sexist, etc. thoughts. And others equally freely think liberating, empathetic, and empowering thoughts.