"Britain could deradicalise Shamima Begum — with compassion."

New York City will prohibit discrimination against hair styles typically worn by particular racial groups.

The demands for museums to "return" their exhibits are reaching the absurd. Gibraltar demands two Neanderthal skulls, age 50,000 years or more, on the grounds they were found in Gibraltar.

Gibraltar was part of the British empire, so placing the skulls in the British Museum was legitimate — and surely more useful to paleontology than keeping them in out-of-the-way Gibraltar.

I urge museums to stop arguing that laws forbid them from "returning" exhibits, and start building the case that there is no reason to do so.

How a Failing Capitalist System Is Allowing Amazon to Cripple America.

I think the phrase "undermine and sicken" fits the situation better than "cripple".

I have never done business with Amazon, because it requires customers to identify themselves — and I would guess, nowadays, to run nonfree JavaScript code. But I won't use its online competitors, either, for the same reasons.

US citizens: protect waiters from restaurants that steal their tips.

If you sign, please spread the word!