On Friday, the Trump Administration stopped sanctioning the International Criminal Court’s people. It sanctioned the court. That’s the escalation. For more than a year, Washington had gone after judges, prosecutors, even the court’s president. Now Secretary of State Marco Rubio has put full blocking sanctions on the institution itself. Its property. Its transactions. Its access
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood Wednesday on the Pnyx, the hill where Athenians once met to govern themselves, with the Acropolis turning gold behind him. “Here, in Athens, we found the
Some days aren’t for arguing. They’re for remembering. October 7th is one of them. Three years ago, Hamas crossed into Israel and killed more than 1,100 people: at a music festival, in
Tear gas in Paris. Fires in Lyon. Projectiles in Strasbourg and Rennes. More than 6,100 arrests, most of them children. That was Tuesday in France, the worst day yet in a school
Jack Smith went to a concert Saturday night. That should be the least interesting sentence written about anyone this week. For three years he was the most consequential prosecutor in the country.
