Via Moyers & Company:
Good morning! On this date in 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act, freeing around 3,000 slaves in DC. Nine months later, he would go on to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.
Stat of the day: 92 percent — the share of Yemenis suffering from symptoms of PTSD, according to forensic psychologist Peter Schaapveld, who attributes the findings to US drone strikes. (Via: Rolling Stone.)
War on terror? –> CNN’s Peter Bergen and New America Foundation researcher David Sterman write at CNN that (non-Muslim) right-wing extremists have killed more Americans on US soil si...
