U.K. police said Sunday they are investigating whether a string of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London are the work of Iranian proxies, the latest of which caused minor damage on Saturday night.
U.K. police said Sunday they are investigating whether a string of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London are the work of Iranian proxies, the latest of which caused minor damage on Saturday night.Open
Freedom of navigation is the real bone of contention. The post The Strait, Not the Nuclear Program, Is the Sticking Point With Iran appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs The Strait, Not the Nuclear Program, Is the Sticking Point With Iran Freedom of navigation is the real bone of contention. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) Why is it so important for the U.S. to take and retain control of the Strait of Hormuz? No matter what else, why is this the only real nonnegotiable with Iran? At first glance the nonnegotiable seems to be Iran’s nuclear program. This raises the question of what might be left of the program after massive bombing by the U.S. and Israel. The media makes much of the fact that some enriched uranium is supposedly still buried under one of the…Open
American legal conservatives are too enamored of abstractions. The post The True Constitution Doesn’t Grant Universal Birthright Citizenship appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics The True Constitution Doesn’t Grant Universal Birthright Citizenship American legal conservatives are too enamored of abstractions. (Photo by Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images) At the recent oral argument in perhaps the most consequential case on the Supreme Court’s docket, the birthright citizenship case of Trump v. Barbara, Chief Justice John Roberts made a telling and illustrative quip. In an exchange with Solicitor General John Sauer concerning the problem of birth tourism, the chief justice responded to Sauer’s concern that 8 billion people around the planet are a “plane ride away from…Open
The U.S. remains an essential player. The problem, one analyst said, is how to deal effectively with a power that is “indispensable, coercive and unpredictable at the same time.”