NATO

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) The comedian who is odds-on favorite in Ukraine's presidential election promised Thursday to hold a nationwide referendum on joining NATO only after building a national consensus on the issue. Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a popular comic actor who…

By Frank Rich , a writer-at-large for New York Magazine Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images In the Labor Day weekend scramble set off by President Obama’s zero-hour about-face on Syria, the only visible politician in Washington who knew just what he wanted to say and said it was the…