In the US, poverty permanently stunts childrens' IQ, but not in other developed countries.

It is not clear why the US gets different results.

22 US cities reported high levels of hunger and homelessness for the year Sep '14 — Aug '15.

India has blocked Facebook's plan to extend internet service without network neutrality.

Access to the internet can be good or bad, depending on whether the internet respects your freedom. If people make the error of assuming that it is good unconditionally, that can lead them to mistake Facebook's power grab for a real gift.

Judaist fanatics in Israel had themselves filmed celebrating the murder of an Arab toddler.

Judaist, Christianist or Islamist, they are all enemies of human rights. The worst of them are killers, but the rest are still bad.

The Battle Over Sangin Should Teach the West Some Vital Military Lessons. And political lessons, too, about "attempting cultural change on a management consultant timeline."

I still think the US might have achieved a good outcome in Afghanistan if it had refrained from attacking and destroying Iraq.