Discrimination
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80 Years Later, Preventing Another Executive Order 9066 Requires Recognizing Its Lessons
Japanese American incarceration and subsequent redress campaign offer timely lessons for U.S. public and policymakers.

Books Bans and Censored Curricula Won’t Change History – or the Racism We Still Live With
A powerful family story of incarceration under Executive Order 9066 shows how the past is very much present.

Combating Anti-Asian Violence through UN Human Rights Mechanisms
The prospect of complaints against States parties should spur more effective responses to anti-Asian attacks and other structural racial discrimination.

80 Years After Executive Order 9066, the Supreme Court Still Shuts Its Eyes to Reality
The myth of facial neutrality ignores how racism and other prejudices shape national security policy.

The International Community and Israel: Giving Permission to a Permanent Occupation
UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories reflects on 50+ years of international inaction on the Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine.

Why Ending the Justice Department’s “China Initiative” is Vital to U.S. Security
The reverberating effects within the scientific community threaten to undermine the primacy of US science and technology at a crucial time.

Preliminary but Necessary: The Question of the Applicability of the Notion of Apartheid to Occupied Territory
Does the prohibition of apartheid apply to occupied territory? Marco Longobardo analyzes how laws of war, human rights, occupation, and against racial discrimination intersect.…

A Soldier and His Establishment: In the Life of Colin Powell, Who Failed Whom?
The question to ask is not what he should have done differently, but what, if anything, his life suggests we should do differently.

With America Out of a Major Foreign War, Time to End One at Home
Many of the tragedies and sins associated with failure in the war in Afghanistan could equally apply to the "war on drugs.”

Will the American Rescue Plan Finally Bring Meaningful Debt Relief to Farmers of Color?
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 has the potential to mark the beginning of the end of the decline of Black farmers and the loss of Black-owned farmland in America – but…

Conscience Wars in France?
Culture wars is an expression that was first popularized in U.S. politics by sociologist James Hunter in the early 1990s. While France traditionally prides itself in refusing the…

Lack of Officials’ Cultural Competency Will Hamper Hate Crimes Laws
"Given the ways in which anti-Asian stereotypes, stigmatizing rhetoric, and caricatures have been culturally tolerated, there is much more that needs to be done to increase cultural…