The corruptor in chief asked Acting Attorney General Whitaker to hamstring the investigation into his hush money payments by putting someone in charge of it who would undermine it. Whitaker declined to do as requested, but I think that merely asking for it was a crime on the corruptor's part.

But I don't think that will daunt him — he will simply dare Congress to impeach him.

I think this is just a step in a plan to eliminate rule of law in the US. It's not just that he would like to be an autocrat (though I suppose he does). I think he wants the US to eliminate the idea that people (other than him) have rights or political power.

Will Senate Republicans defend him no matter what the crime, no matter how solid the proof? Could he blatantly shoot someone on 5th avenue and get away with it, as he claimed in 2016?

Belgium erected a statue of a Congolese black slave looking up at his enslaver, King Leopold. 15 years ago, hackers cut off the slave's hand — not as puerile vandalism, but to illustrate the punishment that Leopold inflicted on many of the Congolese that he didn't kill.

Real anti-semitism has spread widely in France.

This is not, however, an excuse for conflating support for Palestinian's rights or opposition to the state racism of Israeli law with anti-semitism.

A mob of Israeli colonists, with soldiers, rampaged in the center of Hebron, shouting "death to Arabs!" and throwing rocks (but they did no damage).

India's overpopulation has reached the point where there is a conflict between indigenous peoples (generally called "tribals" there) and wildlife refuges.

The human species is in no danger of extinction; some species living in those forests surely are. In principle, therefore, preventing extinction of species should take precedence.

Whether the humans and the wildlife can coexist in these forests, I don't know. That seems to be possible in some places. However, when human populations grow, they tend to wipe out some other forms of life and start changing the overall ecology — just as our ancestors did.