A major energy executive warned that Europe can expect a rough winter, as its Russian gas supplies will likely be siphoned off as they transit Ukraine.

Colorado has released its first study on the state’s legal pot market. Demand is far greater than expected, and is concentrated among a small group of heavy users.

The surge of unaccompanied children attempting to cross the border is being driven by the apparently widespread belief that they’ll be allowed to remain in the U.S. The numbers, unfortunately, support this perception: many minors are ordered to be sent home, but the actual number of deportations remains much lower.

Libyan oil output is slowly recovering, but supply risks abound there and in Iraq, as well. Things would be a lot worse without America’s shale revolution.

Turkey has already voiced support for an independent Iraqi Kurdistan, and recently took yet another important step toward making peace with its Kurdish population.

China and Russia are making power plays in Latin America, and Argentina’s debt problems may provide an opening.

Ukraine, Russia, and the West all have their own reasons for not calling the ongoing conflict a war, just as they all have different views of what would constitute an acceptable peace.

An Australian judge has predicted that incest will soon be as acceptable as homosexuality, arguing that the risk of birth abnormalities is no longer a threat due to access to abortion and contraception.

The Iraqi Prime Minister accused the Kurds of harboring ISIS terrorists, in the latest of a series of ugly speeches. But there’s nothing Baghdad can do to prevent an independent Kurdistan.

The ISIS offensive has so far played to Iran’s advantage, but poses a strategic nightmare for it in the long run as Iraq continues to dissolve.