In stark contrast to this weekend’s Green festivities, an important demonstration took place in Moscow on Sunday, bringing 20,000 to the streets to protest Vladimir Putin’s policies in Ukraine.

A loud Green march in New York City today drowned out an important essay on the unsettled nature of climate science in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal by a former Obama Administration official. We wish the activists had kept their carbon footprint lower by staying at home and grappling with the essay’s contents rather than traipsing to New York City for political theater.

When the President speaks of American exceptionalism, conservatives disbelieve him while liberals cringe. But there is another reaction ascendant, arguing that whether American exceptionalism was once a force for good or for evil, it is now disappearing.

John Key’s National Party won a landslide re-election in New Zealand, largely based on the solid economic performance his party has been able to deliver. The Greenwald/Snowden set, who hoped to gain a meaningful toe-hold in the elections, were soundly rebuked.

The Houthi rebel group is marching on Sana’a. Their gains, with Iranian backing, are rapidly turning Yemen into a new front of the Shia-Sunni wars.

Efforts to fight Ebola, tragically, tend to undermine the social trust that is so vital to containing the disease.

A view of U.S. history through a whiskey glass reveals the central place of the bar in American life.

Prime Minister Le Pen, meet Prime Minister Wilders…

There is no moral equivalence between the Islamic State and Putin’s Russia—the first is a genocidal totalitarianism while the second is brutally authoritarian, but not genocidal. But both want to carve out new or enlarged states across internationally recognized borders, both threaten international stability, and both ultimately legitimate themselves in religious terms.

Backbench MPs promise a “bloodbath” even if the “No” vote succeeds. David Cameron has promised more to Scotland than some Conservatives will tolerate.