Enviro-Mental
Germany’s Dubious Green Leadership

Merkel and Hollande ramped up the green rhetoric today, but Germany is hardly setting a good eco-example.

The End of Iraq
The Ugly Dilemma in Ramadi

Does we support Shi’a militias in a potential bloodbath, or wave goodbye to Iraq as we know it?

China's Big Money Diplomacy
On Latin American Tour, Chinese Premier Makes Major Investments in Brazil

China is investing in Brazil in only the most recent of a spate of headline-grabbing, multi-billion dollar foreign investments.

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.

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