This article is about Washington, DC’s intellectually disabled and the history of their struggle for habilitation rights, which for them includes gainful employment and having a family. Against them has been a conservative local and national government and the US District Court in its rulings over the past 40 years in the
The central concern of this article is family values taught in the religion of southern working-class people in the antebellum United States. It uses a representative South Carolina family and focuses on the values in three different contexts: religion, family and labor. In living out their lives, working people encountered both success and failure. Their history is compared with the present-day family value discussion, as conducted by scholars such as James Dobson.
Toby Terrar reviews I Was a Red Priest, the memoir of Marxist clergy member and activist Father Jean Boulier, finding lessons for today's antiwar Christians.
Is the New World Information and Comniunications Order, one of the major reasons cited for the U.S. decision to withdraw from UNESCO, anti-Western or in violation of U.S. free press traditions? While its history is complex and marked with contradictory tendencies, the U.S. free press traditionally has been on the side of the progressive classthat is, it has been democratic, antifeudal, anticolonial, and antislave. Consequently, the U.S. press has been an inspiration and source of free press theory and of U.N. efforts in behalf of international freedom of the press. The history of the U.S. free press, like history generally, is marked by the decreasing dominance by humans over each other and their increasing dominance over nature.
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