Andy Burnham, the newly installed Labour leader and incoming Prime Minister, has pledged to pursue a compulsory levy on all estates to fund social care in the United Kingdom, resurrecting a proposal he first advanced as Health Secretary around 2009–2010…
A Court Under Siege The United States government is engaged in a deliberate, coordinated campaign to destroy the International Criminal Court — an institution created precisely to hold accountable those whom domestic courts cannot or will not reach. That campaign,…
A pattern is emerging from Washington that warrants more than routine political scrutiny. The Trump administration’s decision to grant the United Arab Emirates license-free access to advanced American artificial intelligence chips — a privilege extended to no other Middle Eastern…
A Retraction in a Kyiv Courtroom A Ukrainian intelligence operative who had previously confessed to murdering a woman connected to an assassination plot in Monaco has now withdrawn that admission, redirecting blame at a co-defendant during ongoing proceedings in Kyiv.…
The integrity of the United States Supreme Court — and of the federal judiciary more broadly — is facing pressures that constitutional scholars describe as structurally corrosive. Kim Wehle, a constitutional law professor and former assistant United States attorney, has…
A Conviction, a Release, and a Legislative Gap The United Kingdom government finds itself in the uncomfortable position of having released a convicted serial child rapist into monitored accommodation while simultaneously scrambling to close the legal loophole that prevents his…
A Comeback Built on Disputed Decisions Argentina trailed Egypt 2-0 before staging a late comeback to win 3-2 in their World Cup 2026 last-16 encounter, a result that has since triggered a torrent of accusations from Egyptian officials and players…
The city of el-Obeid, home to more than half a million people and long a critical humanitarian corridor for northwestern Sudan, is being steadily strangled. Months of siege by the Rapid Support Forces, intensifying drone strikes on civilian infrastructure, and…
The Israeli government has announced it will refuse to comply with a ruling by the country’s Supreme Court — a move without precedent in Israel’s modern history, and one that has sent the country’s already fractured political establishment into open…
A Relationship Fraying at the Edges In a brief phone interview with Axios, US President Donald Trump offered a characteristically blunt assessment of his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We get along very good,” Trump said. “[Netanyahu] knows…