The world stands with France.

Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
Contre nous de la tyrannie,
L’étendard sanglant est levé
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats?
Ils viennent jusque dans nos bras
Égorger nos fils, nos compagnes!

German public opinion is veering away from the original spontaneous welcome to the masses of migrants. There are three sectors of the public: a minority still affirming the legendary “welcome culture”; another minority vocally hostile; and a large group in the middle not firmly committed either way.

As threatening rhetoric and stepped up police actions in Burundi worry the West, it looks like China and Russia might stand behind the government in the name of “sovereignty.”

Germany’s bitter criticism of its allies for spying, particularly the United States, was pure hypocrisy, according to recent reports.

From democratizing loans to revolutionizing venture capital to making stock ownership more accessible to more people, a brave new world of finance appears to be emerging.

Getting the kind of thoroughgoing reform that Ukraine needs would be a challenge in any democratic polity.

The problem of balancing power and ethos is not new, but in the face of the unspeakable atrocities that confront us today it is especially anguished.

A ceasefire is holding in Ukraine’s troubled east both because Kyiv’s national defenses have been strengthened, and because the Kremlin is occupied elsewhere. But will it hold when the Kremlin sees that the EU is not lifting sanctions?

The likelihood of a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding all along the Balkan peninsula just got a lot higher.