Jun 11, 2026
Verdict 1
Two days of US strikes on Iran are being judged against a truce whose terms were never written down, and that absence, not the helicopter, is the engine of this week's escalation.
Jun 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Verdict 2
Three summers of anti-immigrant rioting in Northern Ireland have one common thread the condemnations keep missing: the violence keeps working, and the state keeps letting it.
Jun 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Verdict 3
The Michigan divestment indictment alleges conduct that no theory of protest can absorb, announced by a government that has forfeited the presumption of neutrality, and honesty requires holding both facts at once.
Jun 11, 2026 · 7 min read
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