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  Hi there, It’s Tuesday. At a Republican retreat, Donald Trump pushed members of Congress to pass the SAVE Act and enact strict new restrictions on voters before the 2026 midterms. Meanwhile, the Pentagon says today will be ‘our most intense day of strikes inside Iran as Israel locks down the West Bank while the world is distracted. And in the wake of this war, the Trump administration announced a settlement with Live Nation over its antitrust case against the ticketing monopoly. The reported settlement involving Live Nation is not just a business or regulatory story—it raises serious questions about the influence of corporate power over public institutions. When one of the most dominant companies in the live entertainment industry reaches deals that shape enforcement outcomes and legal accountability, the public deserves to know whether justice is being negotiated behind closed doors rather than pursued in the open. When media outlets treat these outcomes as routine legal develop...

The Law of War Joyce Vance Mar 1 I am not a law of war expert. I don’t play one on TV. But I wanted to share some basic principles and offer some suggestions for further reading as we watch the news unfold in Iran. The White House hasn’t offered the public a reason for the attack on Iran that would make it legal, and CNN is  reporting  they haven’t provided a “full accounting” to members of Congress either. This afternoon, Jake Sherman at Punchbowl News reported that “A senior Trump administration official said that U.S. intelligence ‘had indicators’ that the Iranians were going to use their missiles ‘preemptively, but if not, simultaneous’ to any American action on Iran.” But if the real reason for our attack was warding off casualties from an Iranian first strike, you would have expected to hear the White House using that explanation from the start, which they didn’t. And now that we have struck, we haven’t seen any proportional response, “simultaneous” or otherwise, from Ir...