Corruption in Sierra Leone drained 1/3 of the government's funds for fighting Ebola, in the period through October. This may have greatly increased the number of deaths.

How Libya sank into a battlefield for competing warlords.

In 2011, I endorsed the Western intervention to stop Gaddafi from massacring the rebels. At the time, it seemed there would be hope for Libya. Was this idea wrong from the beginning, or was this outcome contingent?

Some claim it was inevitable, but I am not sure, and others are not either.

Of course, "just" killing a dictator does not make everything fine, but the intervention was never only about that.

Some argue that European countries should intervene, but it is not clear what they could do.

We should not assume that Libya is falling under the control of PISSI.

A Guantanamo prisoner suffers lasting medical problems due to torture of his rectum years ago.

Standard thug interrogation methods can implant false memories of crimes that never occurred.

Psychologists spending just 3 hours talking with subjects got 70% of them to vividly imagine committing crimes that didn't happen.

This is another reason to refuse to answer the thugs' questions without a lawyer present.

How the subtleties of how humans understand categories creates a tendency towards racism.