The Polish-Russian confrontation over World Warfare II has taken an unsightly flip, with the Polish president refusing to attend a Holocaust memorial in Israel and his PM accusing the Soviet Union of delaying the liberation of Auschwitz. ...

John McCain’s dying has impressed a slew of whitewashed obituaries, cringeworthy plaudits and declarations of affection from either side of the political divide — however as historic revisionism goes, his funeral was a step too far. ...