Just hours after announcing plans to “permanently remove a statue of Pennsylvania founder William Penn and a replica of his home from Philadelphia’s Welcome Park,” the National Park Service relented.
Most “poll questions about a ceasefire in Gaza focus on vaguely desirable goals, ignoring the tradeoffs and conflicting values,” argues Mark Mellman at The Hill.
Despite the “concern among foreign policy analysts and officials that if Washington pursues a policy in some part of the world that is unpopular, there will be significant strategic consequences for the United States."
“You know Donald Trump is feeling good when he moves into Triumph the Insult Comic President mode, early in a speech,” reports Racket News’ Matt Taibbi.
“With the Houthis firing missiles” regularly, cargo companies are diverting ships from the Red Sea to “much longer” and “more expensive alternate routes,” observes National Review’s Jim Geraghty, but not China’s state-owned COSCO.