The euro-zone, a monetary union without a political union, will cause increasing suffering, perhaps until it is ripped apart.

The southern countries that are suffering are going to suffer increasingly from global heating, too. Parts of them will become even drier than they are now.

A substitute teacher was told to teach a subject she didn't know, so she showed a gory and sexual horror movie, and was imprisoned for it.

It wasn't a good thing to do, but shouldn't be a crime.

PISSI and other armed groups in Syria are looting and selling antiquities.

Removing them from a site without documenting them is not as bad as destroying them. But it destroys all the information that could have been obtained from their context. It is a tragedy that can never be repaired.

PISSI's affiliates in Libya may destroy ancient remains there.

Lots of federal officials are about to become lobbyists for companies they used to regulate. This has a corrupting effect on them while they are officials.

Don't Believe Mainstream US Media Coverage of Venezuela.