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Alexander Mermelstein

Alexander Mermelstein is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California’s Public Policy and Data Science program.

A basketball game where one team shoots from the high school three-point line and the other from the NBA arc, as many political pundits referee Israel’s wars against terror groups, is not a fair game.
Much of the population that built pre-state Israel was not composed of people with comfortable alternatives, but of individuals who were expelled or escaped countries throughout Europe.
In foreign policy, clarity matters. When rhetoric drifts too far from reality, the decisions it informs can carry lasting and irreversible costs.
Tucker Carlson on the political right and Zohran Mamdani on the left need to be held accountable for their actions and their words, just like university presidents are expected to do.
Real-time war casualty data demands caution; it cannot be taken at face value.