Looking at the rioters in Baltimore, or any other place, in isolation misses the point. If Americans have one grand political tradition, it is rioting.
Nepal’s leaders have been too busy battling each other to establish a workable state, and Nepal will continue to suffer until its leaders put aside their differences.
The country was caught up in the celebration over the war’s end and the mourning over Lincoln, and while the disaster made the front pages, it quickly fell from the public’s mind.
