“Important weapons will not bring back our lives”
Reem Sleem on Al Jazeera
Some “used to believe that exile would provide security and peace, but it turned out to be an extension of the war” in Gaza, says Reem Sleem. “Grief, pain and struggle for survival that we thought we had left behind still follow us.” The well -being is “supposed to stop the fighting”, but “we know that more will die because conditions will not improve. Gaza is no longer suitable to live in.”
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“Madman Theory actually works?”
Daniel W. Drezner on foreign policy
The first sight Donald Trump “sounded different from post -called war presidents, but his feelings echoed Richard Nixon, who also liked to get angry in both meanings of the word,” says Daniel W. Drezner. In “Some cases during his first semester, Trump deliberately cultivated a rumor as a madman.” But “there are many reasons to doubt that Trump will be able to play Madman during his second term,” because his “Schtick worked better with us allies than opponents.”
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‘TikTok survives as an app that is too popular to ban’
Dave Lee at Bloomberg
Tiktok’s “chain of events should be very moving for all of us,” says Dave Lee. “The app should in any case be inaccessible to Americans,” and “the reasoning behind the action has not changed. Even if it had done so, the solution to poor legislation should be better legislation” in Congress. If “Washington considered the Tiktok threat right last year, it should believe the same thing now, even before being disliked.”
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‘Make America healthy again? Let’s see if they are serious. ‘
Chellie pingree at the hill
It is “true that our food system is broken,” says Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine). Americans “struggle to put enough healthy food on the table.” If Donald Trump is “serious about improving America’s health, we have a real opportunity to bring about transformative changes.” But about “all the conversation about putting on the big ag and being serious when it comes to chronic illness turns out to be a bunch of bluster,” unfortunately it will be a wasted opportunity. “
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