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The Biden administration's policy towards the Horn of Africa was neither committed to principled multilateralism, nor ready to use its leverage with the Gulf states.

However, Abbas has long ago lost all leverage with other Palestinian groups in the Middle East.

Sharon — who met her husband at a summer theater program — saw this as an opening: They’d get set up in California and use the movie as leverage to get Keke more work.

Instead, the Trump-Vance administration could leverage the Comstock Act, an 1873 anti-vice law that bans obscene articles being used for abortion from being mailed.

The Harris-Walz campaign seemed at first to leverage those more visceral forces effectively, but would not or could not follow through.