Former defense insiders spill their grievances about the security team’s insularity and incompetence to Politico’s Michael Hirsch.

The finance minister of Ukraine announced that Kiev doesn’t expect to receive the next tranche of IMF funds within this year. Ukraine’s gas problems are only getting more acute.

As Pope Francis appears to be tacitly approving certain liberalizations in the Catholic Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury canceled the upcoming Lambeth Conference due to strong opposition from African clergy to the Anglican Church’s developing attitudes on gay clergy and bishops, same-sex couples, and generally tolerant attitudes toward homosexuality. Meanwhile, the Russian Orthodox Church seeks to “return Europe to its true self”.

California’s superintendent of schools race has gone white hot. At stake: one of the appeals of the controversial Vergara decision, plus the standing of teachers’ unions in CA and nationwide.

The insults are just words, but the underlying thought could have wide-ranging consequences.

A UN investigator has released a series of reports detailing the atrocious state of human rights in Iran. The U.S. should keep this in mind when working toward a nuclear deal with the “moderate” Rouhani.

The market meltdown that accompanied Dilma Rousseff’s re-election as President of Brazil could ultimately help the country by preventing Dilma from becoming complacent—and return the country to the sembalance of disciple that existed under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Rousseff’s predecessor.

The fracking boom has unlocked massive new reserves of American natural gas, which to this point have largely been consumed domestically. But as the U.S. builds out its LNG export infrastructure, Europe is readying import terminals in an attempt to loosen Gazprom’s grip on the continent.

Political Order and Political Decay is out, and Frank Fukuyama is coming to DC to discuss it with our editor Adam Garfinkle. Come join us!

UNC-Chapel Hill put its own interests over its student-athletes on a scale that should shake anyone’s trust in the University as a whole.