Blockading Venezuela’s oil shipments finally gives teeth to a sanctions regime that dictator Nicolas Maduro has only scoffed at, offering real hope for a peaceful transition of power.

All those self-righteous anti-Israel protests of the last two years, on campuses and in the streets, predictably pollinated the poisonous fruit of ugly antisemitic violence now shooting up everywhere.

In the West, "an institutional reluctance to name the motive" in honor killings yields disaster, warns Kevin Cohen at The Wall Street Journal.