He can run, but Ali Khamenei can’t hide forever — from the Israelis, certainly. But Iran’s ‘supreme leader’ may have more to fear from the remnants of his own regime. In the past 24 hours, Israel has reportedly stepped up efforts to take Khamenei off the board, euphemistically or otherwise. Strikes in an area of...
Perhaps my Javert analogy treated Gavin Newsom too kindly. This smells more like a Hunger Gamesí/Panem setup, in which the ridiculously baroque elites strut on stage but fear the people so much that they arrange death matches on the streets to distract the peasantry. In fact, that may be uncomfortably on the nose, given the...