The Trump administration has spent around $24 billion in public funds on its war against Iran so far. Here’s what that money might have been used for instead.

The $24 billion that the US has spent bombing Iran could have been spent on any number of useful programs instead, from public broadcasting to paid leave to making the child tax credit permanent. (Getty Images)

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In spite of the Gaza genocide, Israel still has plenty of customers for its high-tech exports, especially the weapons it produces. But it is experiencing a debilitating brain drain as secular, highly educated Israelis are emigrating in growing numbers.

Israel is a world leader in the “new military urbanism” — crowd control, border surveillance, and counterterrorism — that has…