Irrational mob violence against non-English-speakers has flared up in the US a number of times since 100 years ago.

Foolish people do this because non-English-speakers make good scapegoats. I wonder, do billionaires speak some special language we could ban?

I have to correct one flippant point: English did not become dominant in what is now the US in the 17th century. I've read that around 1800 German seemed to be the most common language in the US of the time, though I can't be sure that is accurate.

The US expanded westward in the 19th century to lands that surely didn't use English much before that. After the US conquered parts of Mexico in the 1840s, the inhabitants continued speaking Spanish for quite some time.

The cheater's lawyers claim that the US president cannot ever be said to commit obstruction of justice, because he is in charge of all investigations.

Trump's Lawyers Want Legal Immunity for the President. Who Will Stop Them?

Publix supermarkets said it would stop making campaign contributions. Those were directed at right-wing candidates.

I suppose the owners will continue supporting them, though.

Chinese are commemorating the anniversary of Tank Man, who blocked for a while the tanks that were sent to slaughter protesting students in Beijing.

Some of the evacuated areas near Fukushima are now safe, but most people are afraid to return.

If a nuclear power plant accident does not pollute the surrounding area with radiation, it is a disaster anyway, simply because of the loss of a plant that cost billions of dollars to build.