Uganda Anti-Gay Protest

Background: Uganda Anti-Homosexual Law

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced on Friday that he plans to sign into law the Anti Homosexuality Bill. This is not a new bill, having first been introduced in 2009, but it has taken years to pass because of the controversy — largely from outside the country.

Vermeer's The Astronomer, 1668

Background: Nazi Art Looting

This blog is a little young for Godwin’s Law to already be proved, but so be it. Earlier this week I retweeted an article from Al-Jazeera English on the discovery of dozens of works of art found in Austria, many of which are thought to have been looted by Nazi Germany. This find coincides with the…