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With Africa now facing some serious economic problems due to the commodity crash, it’s going to be harder for governments to respond to an increased pace of terror attacks.

“Implementation Day” for the nuclear deal should be announced later today, and Iran continues to play ball—but without in any way moderating its regional stance.

Evangelicals have come of age.

It’s probably bursting, one way or another. And the world hasn’t figured out what to do about it.

Two examples from deep blue Massachusetts, which both feature intrusions into the private sphere by various institutions, demonstrate why we should be cautious about taking strong positions in these cases.

It’s too soon to tell if Israel did in fact strike. If it did, it’s a sign of an interesting dynamic playing out.

Agreement on this issue is much harder than it looks, in part because both in Korea and Japan this problem has gotten entangled with many other questions.

A little good news in an otherwise gloomy world.

Modern Russia, the Obama Administration seems to think, is a fairly normal autocracy with which one can ultimately cooperate on occasion. But reality has never quite fit this “realist” reading of Russia.