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The question posed here, about the use of methods that are morally condemned, is not posed only to members of the government, to those responsible for intelligence services, to the security forces or to the army. It is posed to the people.

What good is it to denounce the violation of human rights in the four corners of the world if these principles are ridiculed as soon as Israel is involved, a state outside the norm, above the law?

History is fluid. People are not inert. Our people have the right to demand that the names of any historical figure be erased from our streets.

[T]here is is clearly no risk that one will suffer amnesia if statues are removed, no risk of erasing the collective memory of swaths of history integral to a people’s identity.

Must we wait for Obama’s arrival in Senegal to be the most democratic, cleanest, safest country?

“Somos todos americanos!” That slogan will be remembered as a sort of salsa version of “Yes, we can!” This is what can fill the next two years and give a fresh boost to an Obama too often compared to Jimmy Carter.

A large proportion of white Americans maintain the illusion, worsened by the election of Barack Obama, that the U.S. surmounted its racial conflicts a long time ago.

The full effect of the reorganization imposed by the Supreme Court on campaign financing and the equality of citizen voting has made itself felt for the first time. The result? Depressing!