The slim chance that a female athlete will be disadvantaged by a transgender person over the course of her athletic career is out of proportion to the intensity of the debate.
The fierce debate within the party over pro-Israel and anti-Israel positions, sparked by Mamdani, is likely to continue disrupting U.S. politics for the foreseeable future.
The Beijing summit did not produce a major agreement between the great powers on the region, but it firmly established that Middle Eastern crises are now deeply tied to the great-power dialogue.