Chicken
Are The Saudis Getting Their Nukes?

Contrary to President Obama’s assurances, the intelligence community seems to think it’s a matter of when, not if.

Accountability
Dancing Around Failure

The NYT lets its readers know that things aren’t going so well in the Middle East, without mentioning Obama by name once.

Poland and Spain
Tremors in Europe

Euroskeptics and Eurocritics have made significant, if still only symbolic, gains in Poland and Spain over the weekend.

Middle East Mess
Endgame for Assad?

The Saudis are getting serious about funding the rebels. Could this be a gamechanger?

Intergenerational War
Save Pensions, Burden the Young

Moody’s downgraded Puerto Rico a week after it downgraded Chicago. Illinois, take note: protecting underfunded pension plans means the axe will fall elsewhere.

Away from the East
EU to Swim the Backstroke?

EU leaders are making noises about backpedaling on vague promises to their eastern neighbors about European accession—as Russia gleefully rubs its hands.

Middle East Mess
A Tactical Success, A Strategic Failure

The success of the Syria raid and the collapse in Ramadi paradoxically point to the same grim fact: America’s chosen policies in the Middle East are failing.

The New Normal
Humanitarian Catastrophes and Global Disorder

Today’s plight of the Rohingya, the Syrians and the Libyans point toward the kind of change and turmoil that is bound to accompany any serious decline of American power and will.

Blue Civil War
Bill DeBlasio Is Not Enough

As New York City’s true blue mayor reveals a plan to tackle a long-simmering pension standoff with public unions, union leaders are bristling.

Unintended Consequences
Riyadh: Nuke Deal Will Make Us Get Nukes Too

The Saudis and the GCC will be venting all of their frustrations with the Iran nuclear deal on President Obama today.

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