News Analysis
Greeks Bearing Debts
Greek Crisis Heads to a Compromise

The EU has disavowed a leak about a deal on the Greek crisis, but all signs suggest that some kind of compromise is on its way.

The Eternal Balkans
Russia Gets Paranoid About Macedonia

Russia is accusing the West of fomenting protests in order to push the country into EU hands.

Crude Economics
Saudi Oil Output Hits High Water Mark

Riyadh pumped more oil in March than at any point since November 2005. The world is awash in crude.

Signs of a Policy Failure
Israeli Op-Ed: Help the Saudis Get a Nuke

In a sign of the times, an op-ed in a major Israeli paper proposes the unthinkable.

Lessons of the Iran Nuke Talks?
The Vainglorious Mr. Kerry

The Secretary of State mentioned that the Administration’s deal with Iran could be a model of what North Korea’s denuclearization process will look like. This bit of arrogance gets the history and the argument totally backwards.

Word and Deed
China Jabs at Vietnam Amid Platitudinous Kerry Visit

As Kerry chatted with Xi this Sunday, Beijing was making moves sure to provoke Vietnamese fury and raise the already high tensions in the region’s waters.

Middle East Aflame
WATCH: Walter Russell Mead, Cardinal Dolan on ME’s Persecuted Christians

Full coverage is now up of WRM and the Archbishop of New York talking about Christians in the Middle East.

A War Warning
Iran to Saudis: We’re Going to Land This Ship No Matter What

The Iranian “aid” ship bound for Yemen will not be stopped short of war, Iran warns.

Kansas' Red Dawn
Under Brownback, Kansas Sees Wage and Job Growth

Kansas still has long term fiscal problems, but Brownback’s tax cuts have brought wage and job growth to the state. One gap: a serious focus on making government itself more efficient.

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.

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