Civil War

"Many victims who had the strength to survive the horrors of civil war have not survived this lengthy wait, others have lost patience, but there are some who have waited for this moment," she added.

Despite being from the Tigray region, which was blighted by a two-year civil war, he contributed when he could to the dam's construction ever since the plans were first announced in 2011.

I want to stick with this idea of amendments as a release valve for violence—the idea that the American experiment is itself born of violence, and the amendment process is in response to the trauma of violence, peaking, as you say, after the Civil War.

There’s a reason the most important amendments of the Constitution come out during and immediately following the Civil War.

For months now, withdrawing money has become almost a second job, with employees forced to take off from work to queue before banks, even as the lack of liquidity is strangling a ravaged economy struggling to shuffle off nearly 14 years of civil war.