One thing to watch: Netanyahu’s view of Trump’s pursuit of a nuclear deal with Tehran. In the past, Netanyahu has resisted this idea. But Trump appears to be highly motivated to pursue diplomacy following the American strikes on nuclear sites in Iran, and the recent 12-day fighting between Iran and Israel.

Reports as to how much enriched uranium was actually destroyed vary; Trump has characteristically claimed huge success, but Iranian authorities have claimed that enriched uranium was actually moved to alternate sites prior to the attack. Regardless, there are still unanswered questions related to how much of a setback Tehran’s nuclear program has been dealt, and Netanyahu and Trump will need to figure out what type of nuclear capabilities they will and will not tolerate from Tehran—and how to bring that about.

Move over, Eric Adams: We’ll have another black mayor soon! Self-proclaimed socialist Zohran Mamdani, when applying to Columbia University back in 2009 as a high school senior, claimed he was “Asian” as well as “Black or African American.” It’s true that Mamdani was born in Uganda to parents of Indian descent (a Punjabi Hindu mother and a Gujarati Muslim father), and that he was named after the Ghanaian socialist politician Kwame Nkrumah (for his middle name). But it pretty clearly looks like Mamdani was trying to use affirmative action to his advantage: He was born into a position of great privilege, to very wealthy parents, moving to South Africa when he was five and then to New York City when he was seven.

Mamdani, for his part, “said his answers on the college application were an attempt to represent his complex background given the limited choices before him, not to gain an upper hand in the admissions process,” reports The New York Times. Sure. “Most college applications don’t have a box for Indian-Ugandans, so I checked multiple boxes trying to capture the fullness of my background,” said Mamdani, who says he then wrote in “Ugandan” when given the opportunity to provide more information. He claims he filled out all his college applications the same way.

Look, I’m not sure I buy this. Most well-off students who’ve been at academically competitive schools spend a fair bit of time thinking about how to put their absolute best foot forward to win the admissions game. In an affirmative action regime, this type of, uh, creativity is incentivized.

If Mamdani can claim he’s African American, maybe Elon Musk should too. Maybe the category is meaningless, or can be made meaningless the more people claim it. All of this is, I think, a good argument in favor of universities scrapping race-conscious admissions processes: The rich-kid/third-culture kid ability to game the system could, in fact, convince proponents that the system doesn’t actually work as intended, which would be a victory for those of us who think race-conscious processes are discriminatory and offensive.

The kicker: Even after all this, Columbia rejected him. (Racist!)