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The US is targeting Russian fighters, Iran and Israel are skirmishing and Turkey is killing Kurds. The conflict continues

A showdown between the US president and the special counsel can lead to a protracted crisis and a battle over legality

Investigation by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York can’t be blocked by firing Mueller

If the Cohen investigation ends up implicating Trump in crimes, he will have no one to blame but himself

Trump’s behaviour is an expression of a radically realist foreign policy coupled with a radical downward revision of US power in the world

From Turkey to Poland and the US to Britain parliamentary legislations and debates are becoming 
a bone of contention with established constitutional norms and the judiciary

If China and Taiwan have strongly different assessments of what Trump’s policy will be, that increases the odds of war between them

The Supreme Court decision imposes a respect for orderly constitutional forms and requires elected representatives to take full and individual responsibility for their epochal decision

The scariest possibility is that what begins as a limited fight will grow into something much more like a regional civil war

The Israelis have got the recognition they wanted. Now they will have to bear the cost for it, one way or another

Judges issue rulings, not press releases, it’s also up to civil society and the news media to defend the judge and the rule of law from the president’s bluster

When courts make up new rules, those rules have to be applied by government officials who lack detailed guidance. Hence, the anti-grandmothers rule