BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION One year ago today, I stood in the majestic rotunda of our ...

NEWARK, N.J. — Mikie Sherrill was sworn in as New Jersey governor Tuesday, becoming the second woman to govern the state and the first from the Democratic Party. Sherrill, who is also the first female ...

Democrat Abigail Spanberger was sworn in Saturday as Virginia’s 75th governor, making history as the first woman to hold the ...

The history and the gravity of this moment are not lost on me,” Spanberger said in a speech that at times criticized partisan politics in Washington ...

Zohran Mamdani was sworn into office at midnight by state Attorney General Letitia James inside the old City Hall subway station, a landmarked Romanesque Revival station that is no longer in use. Sen.

Dear U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker and U.S. Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick: Dec. 10 was Human Rights Day, which is celebrated around the world, but seemingly no longer here in the United States. In ...

Students across the Siouxland Empire recently competed in an essay contest, celebrating Human Rights Day.The day, honored each Dec. 10, marks the anniversary of the signing of the Universal ...

One of the supreme achievements of the victory against 20th-century fascism was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As 21st-century fascism increasingly threatens humanity, emboldened as it is ...

“New Yorkers, and Mayor-Elect Mamdani in particular, have an open window of opportunity to fundamentally shift the city from maintaining the status quo between the haves and have-nots to actively ...

A growing snowstorm didn’t deter attendees to the Dec. 9 Human Rights Day Symposium held at the Humphrey School on the University of Minnesota campus. Many were especially eager to hear from keynote ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Let us not delude ourselves. Human rights and democracy which have been ...