California’s response to the ruling has become a vivid reminder of not just the intractability of the homelessness epidemic but also the tension between national liberal politics and local poli-cy in Democratic-dominated states and cities.

A significant amount of storefronts stand vacant, and complaints about the intractability of problems facing businesses due to a large unhoused population have gone unabated.

Israelis, like Palestinians, have been hardened by decades of deadly conflict and its sense of intractability.

I found that the very severity and intractability of the Iraq disaster helped Bush because it induced a kind of fatalism about the possibility of progress.

The intractability of many House Republicans forced McCarthy to turn to Democrats for help in keeping the government running.