*US sanctioned China's top facial recognition firm over Uyghur concerns.*

Punishing companies that participate in repression in China is the right thing to do -- but even more important is to restrict face recognition in the US. And restrict systematic capture of face images, which is the basis of face tracking surveillance.

A demand for reform of US federal flood insurance is a model of wisdom in that it considers the well-being of society as well as that of people whose homes have been flooded. It calls for measures that will do good in the long term -- to warn about housing in flood plains, and move housing to safer, higher ground.

Archival documents show that Belgium arranged the murder of Burundi's first prime minister, in 1961.

A Belgian state investigation confirmed this in 1962, but the state concealed it.

Some Tories demand to impose much higher penalties for pulling down a statue, or even a wreath, on the ground that the act offends the sensibilities of some people.

If the main significance of an act is how it offends someone's sensibilities, that means it should be treated as an expression of an idea, rather than anything else.

Fighting has broken out in Almaty, Kazakhstan, between opposition and government suppression forces supported by Russian troops. Both sides have become quite violent.