It's amazing how long bad ideas take to die. That's certainly the case with one of the least successful ideas in the world. The idea of the two-state solution in the Middle East.

he threat of war in Ukraine is growing. As the unelected government in Kiev declares itself unable to control the rebellion in the country's east, John Kerry brands Russia a rogue state. The US and the European Union step up sanctions against the Kremlin, accusing it of destabilising Ukraine.

Does Trump Derangement Syndrome have no end? President Biden overturned President Donald Trump's policies at the southern border, even though they were controlling illegal migration. He's pushing for a return to the failed Iran deal, even though the Trump administration successfully reined in that country's spreading of terror.

Ami on the Street: Are voter ID laws racist and suppress the black vote? Satirist Ami Horowtiz goes to UC Berkeley and Harlem to find out

HONG KONG - Wrecking and defacing property isn't a custom in this capitalist redoubt. But during seven weeks of protest, some Hong Kongers have appropriated police barricades as battering rams, bashed in doors, broken windows, hurled bricks and eggs, scrawled graffiti on government buildings and splattered paint on emblems of Chinese sovereignty and Hong Kong authority.

" F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims," read the headline on a lengthy New York Times story May 18. "The Justice Department used a suspected informant to probe whether Trump campaign aides were making improper contacts with Russia in 2016," read a story in the May 21 edition of the Wall Street Journal.