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Britain, Israel and the Habit of Alignment: Strategy, Law, and the Politics of Loyalty
There are moments in foreign policy when a country looks less like a sovereign actor and more like a reflex. The United Kingdom’s posture toward the war in Gaza and the widening confrontation between Israel and Iran has raised precisely that question: is this strategy, inertia, or something closer to muscle memory? The UK is …
The Art of the Deal, Reloaded: When Negotiation Comes with Cruise Missiles by Lawson Akhigbe
There is negotiation as taught in law school — offer, counter-offer, consideration, good faith. And then there is negotiation as practiced by Donald Trump — open with an airstrike, tweet in all caps, and call it leverage. Welcome to 2020s diplomacy, where the pre-action protocol reads less like the Vienna Convention and more like a …
Why Doesn’t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism? Immigration isn’t breaking our society. We are. By Adam Serwer
Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP During a White House meeting on Tuesday, surrounded by his Cabinet, President Donald Trump referred to Somali immigrants as “garbage” and said, “We don’t want them in our country.” No one in Trump’s Cabinet stood up to this expression of gutter racism, although Vice President J. D. Vance enthusiastically banged …
Deuteronomy 8:3
Where would you go on a shopping spree? “Man shall not live by bread alone” this is a biblical injunction and bread includes shopping sprees. I will go shopping but not on a spree. The local market and corner shop not just for bread but interactions with others.
All Animals Are Equal (Especially the Ones with Private Jets) by Lawson Akhigbe
In 1945, George Orwell published Animal Farm as a warning about the Soviet Union. It was meant to be a neat little allegory about authoritarian creep, revolutionary betrayal, and how pigs with good PR can convince you that up is down and hay is steak. Fast forward to 2026 and we’re not reading Animal Farm …
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