It may be somewhat difficult, under the current circumstances, to believe in the possibility of a more humane civilization emerging. Wars, poverty, ...

Homo erectus is our distinguished ancestor or extinct cousin. Up till about a quarter of a million years ago, the short stocky fellow roamed the North African wilds with impunity and imperial hauteur.

The United States will not participate in the next United Nations-administered peer review of its human rights records, the latest move in the nation’s withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council.