Mexico's president learned to lie in law school: 29% of his thesis was plagiarized.

Obama has sent a small number of US troops "temporarily" back to Lashkar Gah.

I said, years ago, that the Afghan government did not inspire enough loyalty to defeat the Taliban, and that the US could either keep propping it up or let it fall. Perhaps Obama really thought it could stand up without US forces. Or perhaps he wanted to let it fall, but couldn't go through with it. In any case, the US once again has the choice to either prop it up or let it fall.

Turkey is helping some anti-Assad Arabs to capture Jarablus before the Kurds do.

Teaching Americans about racist terrorism: The Equal Justice Initiative investigates past lynchings to make a museum about the practice.

The word "terrorism" applies to lynching because these murders were intended to intimidate blacks from protesting against the racist laws of the South, and even from fully exercising the limited rights they nominally had.

Here’s How Ferguson Has Kept Blacks off the Local School Board.