The Israeli government displayed its contempt for Kerry's "peace negotiations" by backing a plan to annex a large fraction of the West Bank in order to keep it permanently under siege.

Netanyahu does not care how this affects the "negotiations", since he has no intention of making a peace agreement. I think his goal is to show that he still has the US government cowed; that he can ridicule the US and the "negotiations" and Kerry won't dare make a peep.

A new climate model says we are on track for 4C of global heating by 2100.

The Shocking Redistribution of [US] Wealth in the Past Five Years.

Extreme weather disasters in the Caribbean.

Egypt is applying US-style forfeiture to 500 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.