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Senate Advances Permitting Bill 73-25, and a Lame-Duck Lock-In

The Senate advanced a permitting and data-centre bill 73-25 in a lame duck. Its clause on revoking issued permits would bind later administrations. Burke, on the partnership of the living, the dead and the unborn, cuts both ways.

Congress Must Decide Whether Iran's Pause Becomes War Again

The Democrats' win lands in a fragile pause in the Iran war, with Israel reportedly urging new strikes. Who should decide on renewed combat, the president or Congress? Thucydides on haste, and the best case for flexibility.