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Lorenzo Warby | Lorenzo From Oz | 5th March 2026 Is the attack on Iran, or any war, illegal? Laws come with remedies — consequences for breaking the law. (Public) international law only makes declarative statements, which are not enough to make it law. A war may be unconstitutional, immoral or a strategic failure, but it cannot be illegal. “A much more useful question is: does the war disrupt an existing order or does it seek to enforce it?” (2,100 words) Puzzle: Play Nomido, the Browser’s daily word game. Santi Ruiz | Statecraft | 5th March 2026 …And its idiosyncrasies. Government data systems were built for administration, not analysis. Datasets often have a small number of civil servants using them; inaccuracies can go unnoticed for a long time. Lots of data are based on representative samples, which entails assumptions that can easily invalidate findings if one forgets to include them. “There’s rarely a single person who can explain the whole thing” (2,000 words) Want more? The full Browser recommends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, for less than $1 a week. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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