Plus, regulating Super Bowl trading and DOGE's potential national security risk.
| America’s annexation of Gaza won’t happen Earlier this week, President Trump proposed the idea of taking over the Gaza Strip, resettling Palestinians elsewhere, and redeveloping the region into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” surprising U.S. allies and even members of his own party. Natan Sachs outlines the immediate and long term consequences of Trump's proposal, calling it immoral, illegal, and impractical. |
| More research and commentary The CFTC shouldn't join the Super Bowl party. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) was created to regulate the U.S. derivatives markets, but there has been a recent dramatic expansion of “prediction markets,” including the trading of contracts on the outcomes of sporting events. Former CFTC chairman Timothy Massad argues that sports trading has strayed the commission from its core purpose and should be regulated by a separate gambling commission instead. Does DOGE pose a national security risk? “Even if Musk has not yet reached into the major national security agencies’ systems, there is now a very real possibility that he might do so, and foreign governments, friends and foes alike, are surely paying close attention,” James Goldgeier and Elizabeth Saunders write in Foreign Affairs. |
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