US citizens: phone your senators to urge them to vote for the resolution to cut off US support for Salafi Arabia's bombardment and invasion of Yemen.

If you phone, please spread the word!

Many US hispanics whose ancestors included Jews expelled from Spain are now seeking Spanish citizenship.

The state of human rights in Spain is not all that good, but the danger of getting much worse seems greater in the US.

The idea of "repatriating" artistic treasures taken by imperial powers sometimes involves simplifying history, focusing on only one injustice out of a history of many such.

Projecting modern standards of right and wrong back into the past is often misguided and simplistic. The principle that nations shouldn't try to defeat other nations and take their land is a modern advance in morality. We should campaign to uphold that principle against nations that violate it today.

In the past, though, just about every nation got its land by taking it from some other nation. Empires were generally created by subjugating other nations, and that surely includes Benin. That was not merely common practice, it was also considered acceptable. If we were to judge their past conduct by modern standards, we would condemn almost every nation.

Saboteur Carson of the Department of Housing and Urban Development is doing quiet sabotage by letting the number of inspectors dwindle, which means that public housing gradually becomes degraded and unsafe.

Is it a good thing if the state can grab your car by remote control if stolen? It might be dangerous.