China has set up a chain of "Confucius Institutes" around the world to teach Chinese — under the political control of the Chinese government.

Ukraine is considering a federal constitution that would enable people in the Donbas region (for instance) to have some autonomy.

It's too bad this was not considered a year ago.

An unauthorized statue of Edward Snowden appeared in a New York City park. City staff covered it up and removed it.

Netanyahu is trying to stir up US Republicans to block peace between the US and Iran.

Netanyahu calls any deal "bad" unless Iran would reject it.

The TSA's behavior detection program is useless for finding terrorists, but catches lots of illegal immigrants, and may in fact have been designed for that.