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“When it comes to women of color, we know that they have a higher rate of sexual assault and rape, they have higher rates of murder by partners. … We cant ignore race when we are addressing the problem of gender violence. What happens is that race layers on top of the misogyny and leaves women of color completely vulnerable," says Anita Hill.

His time working for Monsanto and other polluting industries helped make him the fierce conservative he is today.

… You understand, I have this horrible condition. I have had it for years. I am incapable of seeing women as people. It used to be possible to get by in political life in this country with this condition. You would just move around a smoky room, speaking only to men, and you could have a nice career. But now, oh, these things, these things are everywhere. Holding elected office, performing jobs, playing soccer! You must understand my agony when I behold this. So much good meat, delicious mea...

Electoral reform and the crisis of trust Today the collective narrative of all the opposition parties is that 2018 elections were rigged in favour of the PTI The writer is a public policy analyst based in Lahore and be reached at [email protected] Since the 1970 elections, it has almost become a tradition for the losing parties to reject the electoral results of every election. Even by-elections and Senate elections are not spared of this ritual of mistrust in the system. Though every opposit...

Josh Hawleys former academic mentor says he blames himself for helping the senator rise to power gpanetta@businessinsider.com (Grace Panetta) Josh Hawleys former academic adviser regrets supporting the senator and helping him achieve his political dreams. "I had no inkling really just how conservative he was," Stanford historian David Kennedy said. Kennedy made the comments in a lengthy Washington Post profile of Hawley. Stanford University professor David Kennedy, who mentored...

Senate Television via AP According to The Washington Post, Romney told Hawley: "You have caused this!" Hawley has been heavily criticized for raising objections to Bidens electoral votes.  Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah exploded at Sen. Josh Hawley over the January 6 Capitol insurrection, The Washington Post reported. Hes said to have told Hawley, "You have caused this!" The newspaper said that as senators were rushed out of the Capitol and into a secure location, "Hawl...

"I had no inkling really just how conservative he was," Stanford historian David Kennedy said. Kennedy made the comments in a lengthy Washington Post profile of Hawley.  Stanford University professor David Kennedy, who mentored a college-aged Sen. Josh Hawley, told The Washington Post that he blames himself for helping his former student and boosting his political career.  "I think he is a thoughtful, deeply analytical person," Kennedy told The Post. "What I understand far less well is his pa...

Font Size Saturdays CBS Evening News devoted its “Weekend Journal” segment to, as anchor Russ Mitchell explained, “the Senate veteran who is known far and wide as Saint Jack." Bill Whitaker proceeded to relay, without any competing voices, the anti-Christian Right enmity of former moderate, at best, Missouri Republican Senator Jack Danforth who is on a crusade to rid the Republican Party of the influence of Christian conservatives. Whitaker began with a clip of Danforth dec...

Susan Weems/AP Images Early history The Branch Davidians are one of several groups that continued the work of Victor Houteff (1885–1955), a Bulgarian emigrant to the United States and Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) layman who in a set of tracts entitled "Shepherd’s Rod" (1929) called for reform of the SDA church. Having been rebuffed by Adventist leaders, Houteff and his original followers settled near Waco in 1935 and began to prepare for what they believed was the imminent return of Jesus, c...

Susan Weems/AP Images The Branch Davidians were founded by Ben Roden in 1959 as an offshoot of the Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist Church, which had been established by Victor Houteff several decades earlier. Houteff’s group eventually moved to a farm some 10 miles east of Waco, Texas, but by 1962 Roden and his followers had taken possession of the settlement, which was known as Mt. Carmel. There the Branch Davidians lived a simple life, preparing for the imminent return of Jesus. However, in ...