Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not attend the vote on the Basic Law: Torah Study at all. Two days later he showed up for the second bill, took his seat, then left before lawmakers cast their votes. Opposition members shouted "shame" and "go" as he walked out. Both bills passed that week, both years in the making, both centered on military service for ultra-Orthodox men. The first enshrines Torah study as a fundamental value in Israel's Basic Law, the constitutional lay

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not attend the vote on the Basic Law: Torah Study at all. Two days later he showed up for the second bill, took his seat, then left before lawmakers cast their votes. Opposition members shouted "shame" and "go" as he walked out. Both bills passed that week, both years in the making, both centered on military service for ultra-Orthodox men. The first enshrines Torah study as a fundamental value in Israel's Basic Law, the constitutional lay

When Conscience Wears a Uniform The steel handcuffs clicked shut on the steps of the United States Capitol, but the larger question raised by the arrest may linger far longer: When does loyalty to conscience collide with loyalty to institution? That question moved to the center of the national conversation Wednesday after active-duty U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson was arrested during a protest at the Capitol calling for the impeachment, conviction, and removal of President

Trump's 2008 Standard for Impeachment Applies Directly to His Own Presidency In October 2008, Donald Trump sat down with CNN's Wolf Blitzer and said something most Republican politicians wouldn't dare put on record. According to Trump, Bush had earned impeachment not through partisan grievance, but through deliberate deception that dragged the country into war. Trump praised Nancy Pelosi in the same breath, describing her as "a very impressive person," before pivoting to a wi

The U.S. Bombed a Girls' School On the morning of February 28, children at the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran, were changing class periods when a Tomahawk cruise missile tore through the two-story building. The explosion collapsed the roof and destroyed more than half the structure. According to Iranian state media at least 168 children and 14 teachers were killed. Witnesses described pulling severed limbs from the rubble. The preliminary findings from an