‘We will receive our fellow citizens on civilian planes, without treating them like criminals,’ President Gustavo Petro said. Colombian President Gustavo Petro confirmed Sunday he blocked military flights from the United States that were carrying deported Colombian nationals. Last week, President Donald Trump took a series of actions to ramp up enforcement against illegal immigrants,
‘I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations, and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change,’ Trump said. President Donald Trump said on Jan. 25 that he wants Egypt, Jordan, and other Arab nations to accept more Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip, with
We are barely a week into the second Trump administration and the outrage is spilling forth. It’s almost too much to grasp, really. Norm violations are busting out all over. And I’m just talking about Lauren Sanchez’s inaugural outfit. But speaking of norms, Tal Fortgang has a review of Olivier Roy’s The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms. “When
In my second semester of law school, just after the upheavals of 2020, I studied criminal law under a visiting professor whose progressive bona fides were stellar. She was a full-on prison abolitionist who had imbibed and presented for discussion every critical feminist and race theory imaginable. But she was a good teacher and maintained
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) came into the world with a penchant for eloquence, and over the years he developed, honed, and polished it to the point where he became the most renowned of Roman orators. Much of his oration was displayed in the courts. If in the later days of the Roman Republic, you
Ghosts of a Holy War stands out as one of last year’s most under-reviewed and yet most read-worthy books on the Middle East. It spans the Hundred Years’ War between Arabs and Jews over a piece of real estate the size of New Jersey and was praised by Israel’s major papers. Apart from the Wall
House Speaker Mike Johnson has invited Trump to deliver a ceremonial post-inauguration speech to Congress on March 4. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has extended an invitation to President Donald Trump to deliver a customary post-inauguration speech to lawmakers on Capitol Hill during a joint session of Congress that, while not officially a State of