West Virginia Voters Passed a Constitutional Amendment Prohibiting Assisted Suicide
But the amendment won't prevent the state from killing you.
But the amendment won't prevent the state from killing you.
Inhumane labor practices, worker deaths, and the forced eviction and repression of local residents have characterized the kingdom's efforts to build a miles-long linear skyscraper in the desert.
The U.N. has documented killings, forced disappearances, and torture.
Libertarian ideology remains generally sound. But I argue it could use a few updates.
"Evidently, one out of every two Americans wishes they had fewer civil liberties," said one researcher. "This is a dictator's fantasy."
Gershkovich was released Thursday in an elaborate prisoner swap involving two dozen prisoners from at least six countries.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren condemned Israel for killing Palestinian civilians with bombs that she had voted to send Israel.
The anime Mashle: Magic and Muscles offers an absurdist metaphor for politically driven discrimination.
Yang Hengjun's punishment will be commuted to life in prison if he passes a probationary period. But the espionage accusations against him are highly spurious.
The author discusses how cryptocurrencies are helping people like her build the Africa—and the world—they want.
Author Magatte Wade discusses how cryptocurrencies are helping people like her build the Africa—and the world—they want.
Instead of looking like a future president, Newsom comes off as just another small man in a big office.
The justifications for backing Israel's struggle also apply in spades to Ukraine's.
Is our country getting closer to living out the true meaning of its creed, "All men are created equal"?
"During the visit, Biden could have refrained from deep public embraces of Modi or from emphasizing India's democracy. He chose to do neither," says Michael Kugelman.
The new law dictates a life sentence for anyone caught having gay sex and the death penalty for anyone convicted of "aggravated homosexuality."
The authors of The Individualists talk Rand, Friedman, Hayek, Rothbard, and the "struggle for the soul" of the libertarian movement.
The economic historian and Magatte Wade, Alex Gladstein, Mohamad Machine-Chian, Tony Woodlief, and Tom Palmer are challenging authoritarians everywhere.
Opponents of the proposed reforms are right that unlimited majority rule is a recipe for tyranny.
Right now, Hongkongers have lost their avenues to speak because of the national security law imposed by the new government.
Politicians in Syria, Turkey, and the United States are getting in the way of relief efforts.
"I pray wherever I go, inside my head, for the people around me," said one priest. "How can it be a crime for a priest to pray?"
Report author: “The COVID-19 pandemic was a catastrophe for human freedom.”
On Thursday, the South Carolina Supreme Court began hearing arguments in a case that could see the state's attempt to execute inmates by electrocution or firing squad declared unconstitutional.
The Human Rights Foundation is mobilizing a global band of activists to fight authoritarianism in China, Iran, Russia, and beyond.
Plus: The editors ponder the lack of women’s pants pockets in the marketplace.
By consenting to Qatar's illiberal policies for residents and guests alike, FIFA has further besmirched its already tainted reputation.
Like the Olympics, the World Cup is rife with human rights abuses and glorification of authoritarian host regimes. It doesn't have to be that way.
Thousands of people from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka have died while working on enormous infrastructure projects in the lead-up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
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We can condemn the actions of Moscow without forfeiting the right to point out missteps in Kyiv.
U.S. officials want to reset relations with Saudi Arabia and Israel amid rising gas prices and new security challenges
Taking this step is both a moral imperative, and the right way to advance US economic and strategic interests.
President Nayib Bukele is using brutal tools to solve a problem driven partly by U.S. immigration policy.
Activist Fadi Elsalameen says U.S. aid doesn’t help Palestinians because of corruption. They need monetary freedom.
Evidence mounts in Bucha, Ukraine, indicating that Russian troops killed civilians arbitrarily and mercilessly.
Protesters aren’t intimidated by Putin’s threat of imprisonment for dissent.
"I think the Chinese government actually takes a lot of pleasure knowing that they can actually strong-arm individuals and companies into capitulation to its own political ideology."
Their immigration struggles are indicative of broader issues in America’s refugee and asylum infrastructure.
“We have been through horrific things, but I’m still proud of being Uyghur," says Tursunay Ziyawudun, a survivor of China's torture camps.
The grandmaster and human rights activist talks about the lessons the world—especially American democratic socialists—must remember three decades after communism's collapse.
30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its greatest—and last—chess champion reflects on the awful system that produced him.
For decades, Western apologists downplayed the horrific consequences of China’s reproductive restrictions..
There is no other way to prevent the games from becoming a propaganda showcase for a brutally oppressive regime.
"It's an escape hatch from tyranny," writes the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. "It's nothing less than freedom money."
(You don't really have to shut up, but here's my money.)
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