Will calling the sky blue land you in the slammer next in Hungary?

Francois Hollande is pleading with President Obama to intervene in the investigation of French bank BNP Paribas over its alleged sanctions-busting behavior. While President Obama is right to demur, we shouldn’t lose sight of what a huge deal this is.

From the Middle East to Europe to Asia, the Obama Administration looks increasingly adrift. A serious course-correction has to happen soon.

In case you missed it over the weekend, Walter Russell Mead had a penetrating essay in the Washington Post assessing Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department.

One of Vladimir Putin’s greatest successes of the Ukraine campaign has been his resounding propaganda victory. The West had better take heed and adjust.

Centrist Democrats are taking heat across the country from a reinvigorated liberal wing. This week, it was Governor Andrew Cuomo who was made to dance across the coals.

The West keeps giving Russia opportunities to defuse the crisis in Ukraine, and Russia keeps on not taking them. Meanwhile, the West itself is fragmenting.

The number of government employees in New York State who have qualified for pensions over $100,000 has doubled over the past five years. Blue partisans who love high taxes, low wages, and restricted job opportunities—celebrate!

The Financial Times has doubled down on its criticism of Professor Thomas Piketty’s much-discussed book. That an institution as august as the FT is going to the mat suggests that its editors have a lot of confidence in their own conclusions.

Are we seeing the end of an era of relatively moderate, centrist politics in major American cities? Rahm Emanuel’s recent poll troubles in Chicago suggest we might be.