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Iraq, Iran, Irate
Devoid of reasons, creatures of impulse, our presidents apparently can’t help themselves from blowing up someplace in the Middle East, no matter how many times it ends in bloody disaster.
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Move To Take Out Khamenei Is Not Surprising
For more than four decades, Donald Trump has called for invading Iran, seizing its oil, and preventing it from gaining a nuclear weapon.
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Hegseth’s Carefully Worded Iran Presser
Monday, March 2nd on RealClearPolitics – Joined by James S. Robbins, Dean of Academics at the Institute of World Politics: 00:00 Hegseth Says Iran Strikes Pr…
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What Is Behind the Strategy To Take Out Iran’s Leadership?
Security correspondent Gordon Corera looks at what is likely to happen now that joint US and Israeli attacks have taken out some of the Iran’s most senior leadership.
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Second Amendment Roundup: Oral Argument in Hemani
Yesterday the Supreme Court had oral argument in United States v. Hemani, which presented the question, “Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who ‘is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance,’ violates the Second Amendment as applied to respondent.” Several justices […]
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Slavery and Birthright Citizenship
Milla74/Dreamstime Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case, is currently before the Supreme Court, and there is a vast array of amicus briefs, as well as the briefs of the parties. But one key issue has not gotten the attention it deserves: accepting the government’s position would undermine the central purpose of the Citizenship Clause […]
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Justices Debate Emergency Docket in Parental Rights / Gender Transition Concealment Case
Today’s opinion in Mirabelli v. Bonta involved, on the merits, California policies that “prevent schools from telling them about their children’s efforts to engage in gender transitioning at school unless the children consent to parental notification” and “require[] that schools use children’s preferred names and pronouns regardless of their parents’ wishes.” But the procedure was […]
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Justices Debate Substantive Due Process Again, This Time in Parental Rights / Gender Transition Concealment Case
Today’s unsigned majority opinion in Mirabelli v. Bonta held that California policies that “prevent schools from telling them about their children’s efforts to engage in gender transitioning at school unless the children consent to parental notification” and “require[] that schools use children’s preferred names and pronouns regardless of their parents’ wishes” violate parental rights, which […]
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Parental Rights Not to Have School Hide Child’s Social Gender Transition / Parental Rights to Provide Child with Surgical or Hormonal Gender Transition
Today’s unsigned majority opinion in Mirabelli v. Bonta held that California policies that “prevent schools from telling them about their children’s efforts to engage in gender transitioning at school unless the children consent to parental notification” and “require[] that schools use children’s preferred names and pronouns regardless of their parents’ wishes” violate parental rights. Justice […]
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Trump’s War With Iran Is Unjustified and Unpopular
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss the U.S. military strikes against Iran, and why the United States repeatedly finds itself pulled into wars in the Middle East. The panel examines the White House’s original narrative around the 2025 bombings of Iran’s nuclear facilities and what evidence supports claims that Tehran posed an […]
