Weekly Wrap Up - May 15, 2026

Summary

This Weekly Wrap Up, Eddie examines the global economic fallout of the U.S.-Iran conflict and compounding humanitarian crises in Cuba and Gaza. Domestically, he analyzes the systemic erosion of the Voting Rights Act and the necessity for civic mobilization in defense of democratic institutions.

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Middle East Conflict & Israel

• Finance Minister calls to annex the entirety of the West Bank

• Israeli bulldozers tear down Palestinian shops on the edge of Jerusalem

• Palestinian teen killed in Israeli settler raid in West Bank

• Director of Peace Board warns Gaza ceasefire is leading to permanent division

US-China Relations & Global Diplomacy

• Trump says he and China’s Xi agree Iran cannot have nuclear weapons

• Live News: Trump’s China visit and meeting with Xi

• Trump, Xi, and the Thucydides Trap in US-China relations

• Trump blames Biden for US decline in response to Xi

• Donald Trump’s response on Truth Social

Economy & Inflation

• Live Updates: Inflation CPI Report

• Inflation in April driven by gas prices and Iran War

• US wholesale prices rose 6% in April in another sign of sticky inflation

Cuba Blockade

• Cuba fuel shortage: What happens when a country runs out of diesel

• Cuba experiences rolling blackouts amid fuel crisis

• Cuba has run out of diesel and fuel oil amid US blockade

• CIA, Trump, and the oil blockade driving Cuba blackouts

• Opinion: The US long war on Cuba

Immigration & Border Enforcement

• ICE moving forward with warehouse detention plan despite lawsuits

• Tom Homan on border security and mass deportations

• Kevin Gonzalez dies after reuniting with detained parents from Mexico

• Teen’s cancer death highlights parents’ immigration detention

Voting Rights & Domestic Policy

• Southern states redistricting and Black voting power

• Stacey Abrams on redistricting and the Voting Rights Act

• Voting rights, redistricting, and the courts ahead of midterms

• Black leaders respond to southern redistricting

• All Roads Lead to the South: Day of Action

• Alabama voters to protest recent Supreme Court voting rights ruling

• Gerrymandering and Trump

• Justice Department determines Yale Medical School discriminated based on race

• Jeffrey Anderson on Yale Medical School demographics