A coming surge of migrants and a controversial fiscal stance could complicate Merkel’s life after a likely re-election.

After their failures this past spring, Republican Senators have new plans—at opposite extremes from each other.

There are no short-term fixes to the North Korean crisis, only a long-term containment challenge.

Kenya’s Supreme Court tosses last month’s fraudulent election results after John Kerry and the Carter Center affirmed them.

The new UN Secretary-General is the friendliest that Jerusalem could realistically hope for.

Europe and Mexico are feeling the effects of Harvey’s devastation.

Kyiv’s “patronal” politics and soft authoritarianism could extinguish the promise of the Maidan, just as they did the Orange Revolution before it.

Oil rich Kirkuk’s vote in the in the Kurdish independence referendum will annoy Baghdad, but might be a minor consolation to Turkey.

It’s becoming impossible to take seriously.

Progressives may be tempted by a Harvard law professor’s solution to the affirmative action tangle. But it would make our politics even more toxic.