“Shattering the job security once afforded to the permanent government” will be one of President Trump’s “signal and lasting achievements,” predicts Semafor’s Ben Smith: When top officials at federal agencies buck him, Trump has them fired immediately. He’s now a one-term president with no time to waste. And “powerful pockets of the US civil service — from the Pentagon and intelligence services to the agencies responsible for health and safety” — have their own “internal cultures, values and loyalties that can often involve resisting political leadership.” Trump’s “victories against the bureaucracy have appalled many Democrats,” but others on the left “are ready for the change” and believe “the brakes on democracy represented by the bureaucracy” are “no longer viable.” Recently, the Food and Drug Administration “approved Covid-19 vaccines” for people over 65 and those “at high risk of severe Covid.” FDA Commissioner 

Dr. Marty Makary explains in The Wall Street Journal that this “regulatory framework brings the U.S. in line with peer nations.” For the first time, “the FDA is demanding that all companies run a clinical study assessing whether the new Covid shots improve outcomes in healthy subjects.” This “new framework essentially ends mandates” and returns the agency “to an evidence-based standard.” It also “preserves vaccines for those who might most plausibly benefit,” while gathering evidence about whether an “annual booster campaign” is warranted.

As “a world-famous antinationalist academic,” Zohran Mamdani’s father and intellectual mentor Mahmood Mamdani “has called for a political future in which every nation state including the United States would be ‘deconstructed’,” notes John Aziz at Quillette. Mahmood’s “argument is that the great tragedies of the twentieth century were not excesses but the logical outcomes of nationalism itself.” Yet beyond this, “Mahmood Mamdani’s treatment of Israel stands out.” Though “most Palestinians are not demanding a ‘post-national’ arrangement,” but a nation state of their own, Mahmood demands that Israel dissolve itself in favor of a “single political entity that goes beyond nationalism altogether.” But “the world is becoming more nationalistic not less,” and Mahmood’s ideas “go against the direction in which history is currently moving.”