- Following the terror attacks in Paris, the direction that France takes matters hugely for the rest of the world, writes Gideon Rachman
- Mounting political crises – from a potential Grexit through to domestic protests against Islam and immigration – are set to test German chancellor Angela Merkel’s unflappable approach
- The strength of the US’s economic recovery is creating a quandary in Washington: how to galvanise the broad swath of voters who feel they have been left behind
- Why did the world ignore Boko Haram’s Baga attacks that killed hundreds while so much media attention focused on the Paris terror attacks? (The Guardian)
- Mexican traffickers are sending a flood of cheap heroin and methamphetamine across the US border following the decriminalization of marijuana in some American states (Washington Post)