With Congress back in session this week, lawmakers have a heavy agenda in front of them: how to help Americans hit hardest by the pandemic, and what to do about institutionalized racism and police brutality against African Americans across the country. There is one simple move that Congress could make…

The Mexican president arrived in Washington DC yesterday to meet with President Trump about the Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada (USMCA), formerly known as NAFTA. A self-anointed crusader against what he refers to as “neoliberalism”, Andrés Manuel López Obrador — or “…

**IMPORTANT UPDATE: Since the publication of this article Chauvin’s charges were upgraded to 2nd degree murder.** While Minneapolis chief of police Medaria Arradondo has been applauded for immediately firing the four officers involved in 46-year-old George Floyd’s death just over a week ago, questions about prosecutors’ choice to charge former…

Last night, we were treated to another xenophobic tweet straight from the bowels of Trump’s phone. “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration…

“ Donald Trump has blood on his hands.” Those were the words of New York City’s comptroller Scott Stringer, whose mother died last week of Covid-19. He wasn’t the first person to say it, but this time Stringer’s words hung glaring, suspended in air thickened with the struggling breaths of…

Author’s Note: This brief synopsis of Islamic law emphasizes the classical and medieval interpretative approaches, interspersed with contemporary points of view. This article is in no way attempts to deal with Islamic law in-depth; rather it is the goal of International Bridges to Justice to provide an overview of the rights of the accused in Shari’ah and a bit of historical context for understanding the Quran’s approach to those rights.

Senator Bernie Sanders warned us about the inadequacy of our healthcare system for years; he warned us what would happen if a massive national or international disaster struck and it has. …

The city is rich with Mayan and Spanish history The site of the ancient Mayan city Ak-Kim-Pech was the first place in continental America where the Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1517. The Europeans came under the leadership of Francisco Cortez de Cordoba, who ‘discovered’ (for the Spanish) the Yucatan Peninsula…

In Mexico today, there is an undeclared war against women and girls. Femicide, the gender-based murder of a woman by a man, is a national emergency in a country where violence against women has been spiraling out of control for years. The problem has received grossly inadequate attention from state and federal authorities. Anger at the impunity and lack of government response exploded in recent months. …