In Victorian times they knew what to do when some jungle potentate committed atrocities: Send a gunboat. It worked but, we now realize, was presumptuous, even arrogant. So, in these enlightened multicultural times, we react to Syrian human rights abuses by … um… sending a gunboat. Click here to read the rest.
Here's a dog that barely whimpered in the night. Detroit went bankrupt and people went yeah yeah sure. Click here to read the rest.
A jury of his peers said George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in self-defence. Barack Obama urged people to respect the verdict. A host of people including his own attorney general promptly didn't. And the president who called for an adult conversation on race as a candidate five years ago was once again a bystander when his country needed a leader. Click here to read the rest.
The deadly derailment in Lac-Megantic dramatizes the hazards of carrying oil by train. But such accidents are very rare and no form of transport is entirely safe. So we should be asking not whether trains should carry oil but how much oil they should carry instead of pipelines. Click here to read the rest.