President Hollande wants to extend the French State of Emergency for 6 more months, till May.

Will it ever be allowed to end? I doubt it. Unless the French people remember how to fight for their freedom, they will never get it back.

Why Keith Ellison and not Howard Dean should be head of the Democratic National Committee.

Russia has cancelled its weak support for the International Criminal Court after it criticized Putin's military takeover of Crimea.

If the ICC ultimately fails, I think that will be due to the failure of the US to support it. If the US had done so, it would be difficult for others to reject it; they would have appeared brutal.

One neighborhood in Montreal is trying to resist gentrification by limiting the number of restaurants.

I don't think there is a human right to run a restaurant, so if this measure succeeds I will give my congratulations.

However, in the long term the ways to prevent gentrification are to reduce economic inequality, allow increased density of housing construction, and provide more opportunity for work (or at least prosperity) outside the centers of cities. Reducing population growth can help, too.

"Fellow white evangelicals: your votes for Trump shook my faith."