Cooler weather on Monday will help in firefighters  battle to get the Alberta wildfire under control. The fire, which has destroyed about 620 square miles and has been nicknamed "The Beast", has been burning since May 1 and now has more than 100 water-dropping helicopters flying over it. After expecting the fire to double in size over the weekend, light rains and cooler temperatures helped prevent that from happening.

Lee Jones explains why economic sanctions aren’t a very useful tool. Here he addresses whether sanctions helped produce the nuclear deal:

A statue of German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler has sold for a record 17.2m (£11.9m) at a New York auction house. The figure far exceeded estimates for the wax and resin sculpture of the Nazi leader by artist Maurizio Cattelan.  International Business Times reports: Entitled Him, the sculpture appears to be a small child kneeling in prayer when approached from the rear but when seen from the front the viewer is confronted with the unmistakable likeness of the Nazi dictator. It was sold at the start of a week-long sale of modern, post-war and contemporary art at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York.

I’m late to the much-discussed New York Times Magazine profile of Ben Rhodes, the 38-year-old White House staffer who is President Obama’s “foreign policy guru.” This paragraph early in the piece lets you know (you might think) what an arrogant piece of work is Ben Rhodes. Emphasis mine:

Gartman has done it again. From his letter as of this morning.