Tyler Glasnow lasted just one inning into today’s start against the Pirates, as the Dodgers right-hander left the mound while taking his warm-up pitches before the beginning of the second frame.

Ahmed al-Sharaa is no moderate. He is not a Gorbachev seeking glasnost. He is the polished product of a radical Islamist movement that cut its teeth on the battlefields of Syria’s civil war.

The Soviet Union could not afford to follow suit. Mikhail Gorbachev sued for peace, and Glasnost from 1986 ended the Cold War while it was still "cold," meaning no battlefront exchanges pitted the ...