Paying for injustice.

Busting the myth.

Other than English. (Or Spanish.)

The 84-year-old whose father just missed Gettysburg.

Musical infighting is the worst kind. Much nastier than fannish feuds, let alone real politics.

US complicity in the 1971 Bangladesh genocide.

Strangely I appear to be from somewhere near the Gulf Coast.

Brilliant.

Analysis of the flaws of a whites-only strategy.

Democratic engineering.

There's nothing like democracy (and this isn't much like democracy).

Not a perfect match, but interesting,

The Rolling Stone article about the Boston bomber.

Not quite, apparently.

One to watch...

Commemoration season starting early.

Justice in Florida, 1950.

A revisionist account of what happened in Iran in 1953.

In the US: Sophia v Emma, Mason v Liam/William.

The truth behind the story.

Fascinating - New England exists as an entity, New Mexico doesn't!

Fixing a hole where the rain got in.

Consular problems in the Czar's Russia.

The title says it all.

How not to be an ambassador!

"As Americans, we’re brought up our entire lives being taught that we’re the best, we did everything first and that the rest of the world follows our lead. Not only is this not true, but people get irritated when you bring it to their country with you. So don’t."

"I am forty-five years old— Two thirds of a long life are past, and I have done Nothing to distinguish it by usefulness to my Country, or to Mankind— I have always lived with I hope a suitable sense of my duties in Society, and with a sincere desire to perform them— But Passions, Indolence, weakness, and infirmity have sometimes made me swerv…

The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid,

It's the inequality, stupid.