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Was Erdoğan's gun gift a faux pas or an old-school diplomatic tradition?

When NATO leaders opened their gift boxes from the Turkish president and found a .357 Magnum revolver, some panicked and others laughed. But gifting heads of state lavish, personalised firearms is a tradition as old as Samuel Colt — and as recent as a Czech pistol presented to Trump in…

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Christians claim US as their own again

The insistence that the U.S. is “one nation under God” stems from existential fear

Salon

2026 isn’t the first time Christians have tried to claim the United States as their own

Amid celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary, assertions of the country’s religious, and specifically Christian, character have grown louder in political discourse.

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Pressure review – Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser can’t save lower-tier D-day drama

A behind-the-scenes second world war drama focused on the importance of weather is too stodgy and repetitive to work as anything but a so-so TV movie

The Guardian - US

Trump’s exchange with Pope Leo reflects deep-rooted tensions between the Vatican and the United States: 4 essential reads

President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV, the U.S.-born head of the Catholic Church, had an unusual and acrimonious public exchange over the weekend.

The Conversation

Queen Elizabeth II centenary exhibition reveals how her iconic wardrobe shaped diplomacy, identity and timeless royal style across seven decades

Queen Elizabeth II's enduring style, a blend of practical elegance and subtle diplomacy, is showcased in a new exhibition. From tweed skirts promoting British production to her coronation gown adorned with Commonwealth symbols, her wardrobe communicated strength and global connection. Even a transparent raincoat highlighted her visibility and adaptability, reflecting…

The Times of India

Ali Khamenei’s killing continues long US tradition of letting others pull the trigger

The US and Israel assassinated Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a joint operation in late February. In a post on social media, Donald Trump boasted that Khamenei was “unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems”. Trump added that “there was not a thing he, or…

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Cuba has survived 66 years of US-led embargoes. Will Trump’s blockade break it now?

After toppling Venezuela’s leader earlier this year, the Trump administration has turned its sights on Cuba. The near-total blockade of the island is now posing the greatest challenge to the government since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

The Conversation

Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1969 to 1989

Humphrey's Executor from 1969 to 1989.

Reason

They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity

Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression

The Guardian - US

US military buildup off Venezuela coast stirs echoes of 1989 Panama invasion

Some see anti-Noriega operation as model for deposing Maduro but others say US-orchestrated military coup is more likely option

The Guardian - US

How I Used Barchart’s Stock Tools to Test a 70-Year-Old Wall Street Slogan

Plus, three Israel-based stocks to buy for Yom Kippur.

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The president as partisan warrior: Trump’s rejection of traditional presidential statesmanship

In a classic work on the modern presidency originally published in 1960, political scientist Richard Neustadt wrote that the American public “expects the man in the White House to do something about everything.”

The Conversation

The use of federal troops to quell Los Angeles protests recalls militarized law enforcement during the Civil Rights Movement

President Donald Trump activated 4,000 National Guard troops on June 10, 2025, to quell protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids – without the normal request from the state. He has also sent to Los Angeles hundreds of U.S. Marines, with the goal of protecting the unprecedented deportation operations by…

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Parades Are Great, but We Shouldn't Venerate the Military

America’s founders were deeply suspicious of a standing army.

The Independent UK

Trump's military parade is a US outlier in peacetime but parades and reviews have a long history

The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will be a new spectacle for many Americans

The Independent UK

Navy cancels speech by podcaster who planned to reference its ban on more than 300 books

The Annapolis, Maryland college was ordered to remove nearly 400 books from its shelves last month to comply with one of Trump’s executive orders

Salon

The acid trip too weird for the Huxleys

How Britain's most famous intellectual family hit the rocks one intense acid-drenched night in Connecticut

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The Guardian - US

The Determined Spy: Frank Wisner, the CIA and a covert career cut short

New biography tells story of operative who directed coups in Iran and Guatemala and grappled with mental illness

The Guardian - UK

Augusta provides an unexpected oasis amid the Trump maelstrom

In this corner of Georgia you notice Donald Trump mostly by his conspicuous absence from the conversation

The Guardian - US

‘There’s quite a similarity’: US civil rights pioneers warn of ‘surge backwards’ under Trump

They faced violence and racism as they fought on the frontlines for justice and equality. Now Trump is reversing the progress they toiled for

The Conversation

Deportation fears create ripple effects for immigrants and their communities

The Trump administration’s plan to deport millions of immigrants living in the country without permission is falling far short of its initial goals in its first few weeks.

The Guardian - US

Presidents at War: how battle has shaped American leaders

A new book looks back in history to see how presidents including Reagan and Eisenhower were affected by war

The Texas Tribune

Trump’s mass deportation plans have echoes of a 1950s federal crackdown that swept through Texas

Seventy-one years after the Eisenhower administration launched a high-visibility operation to arrest undocumented immigrants, President Trump is following some of the same playbook.

The Guardian - UK

Why Dwight was right about corporate greed

Letters: The prophetic words of an American president are remembered by Frank Keightley, while Jules Stewart reckons American greatness has nothing to do with the present White House incumbent

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