Sacramento The California Legislature isn’t shy about taking meaningless moral positions on national and international issues. It’s therefore no surprise that legislators returning from summer recess have been touting a variety of such proposals and resolutions. Democratic leaders held a…

Reforming United Nations institutions is often a fool’s errand. Yet, the Obama Administration chooses to draw no lessons from its attempt to improve the UN Human Rights Council, which just concluded its 10th anniversary session this month. Ten years ago,…

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor who would earn a Nobel Peace Prize for documenting his experiences at Auschwitz and Buchenwald and speaking out against human rights abuses around the globe, passed away yesterday at the age of 87. Born in…