A journey well travelled

Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Wow, yโ€™all made it. The journey was fun and exciting. You chose well and your offsprings are a testimony to the cause of your travels. You ran because your parents walked and your children are flying now. Say hi to the big man and watch over those you …

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 Kingdomโ€™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 โ€” offer, counter-offer, consideration, good faith. And then there is negotiation as practiced by Donald Trump โ€” 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 Doesnโ€™t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism? Immigration isnโ€™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 โ€œgarbageโ€ and said, โ€œWe donโ€™t want them in our country.โ€ No one in Trumpโ€™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? โ€œMan shall not live by bread aloneโ€ 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.