Watching the Shadows

US drops, Russia adopts color-coded terror alerts

The US is doing away with the color-coded terrorism alerts adopted in the wake of 9-11—just as Russia is adopting such a system in response to the Moscow airport attack.

Watching the Shadows

Enough with the Julian Assange hero worship

Some 600 dissidents arrested in Belarus over the past week—as so-called “progressives” in the West rally uncritically around the accused rapist who put those dissidents at risk.