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The Strait of Hormuz is the kind of choke point people talk about in theory, right up until it closes and the whole global economy starts to feel it. We’re joined by Ambassador Chas Freeman, a veteran American diplomat, to make sense of the US-Iran ceasefire drama and the bigger reality underneath it: Iran is not looking for a new ultimatum, and Washington is struggling to offer anything that resembles real negotiations. We dig into why “maximum pressure” often produces the opposite of its stated goals, including the risk that repeated attacks convince Tehran it needs a nuclear deterrent. We…
Watching GOP lawmakers trip over themselves to say President Trump’s White House ballroom is the most important issue facing America is … weird. Source link
Graham Platner’s comments about rape more than a decade ago are the subject of a new ad attacking the Democrat trying to oust U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, in a nationally watched contest. “Graham Platner blames Maine’s women for getting raped because he says they get f—– up drunk,” the April 26 ad by Pine Tree Results PAC says. (A similar ad from the PAC makes the same claim.) The attack echoes previous ads by Maine Gov. Janet Mills, Platner’s main rival in the June 9 Democratic primary. The winner will face Collins, the 30-year incumbent. The PAC…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) this week indicted former FBI Director James Comey on two felony counts of threatening the president. The case stems from a May 2025 Instagram post, in which Comey shared a photo of seashells arranged to spell “86 47″—86 being a slang term for getting rid of someone or something, and 47 a reference to Donald Trump, the 47th president of the United States. The case is meritless. It appears to be a vehicle for settling a personal grudge—Comey has been a target of Trump’s ire for nearly a decade—and is so deficient that the former FBI…
Jamie Raskin has now done what Congress avoided for nearly six decades. With Trump’s Iran war spiraling and public trust collapsing, he has finally tabled a bill to build the “other body” the 25th Amendment quietly promised back in 1967. On paper, it is a nonpartisan commission,but in reality, it is an attempt to answer a question the American system has never dared to face head-on. You are staring at a question that is much bigger than Donald Trump, the man. It is about whether the United States has a credible, non-partisan mechanism to stop a president from escalating toward…
DOJ indicts Southern Poverty Law Center on wire fraud and conspiracy charges, alleging the group paid extremist informants to sustain its so-called Hate Map. Source link
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will keep interest rates steady on Wednesday as he struggles to parse a bewildering mix of data: rising energy prices, an uncertain labor market and questions over shifting tariff rates. Source link
Iranian Economy Descends Into a Death Spiral Source link
After a gunman sought to breach the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, some lawmakers said Secret Service agents foiled his plot even though their agency is currently unfunded during a partial government shutdown. The day after the April 25 dinner, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., posted on X, “Secret Service remains unpaid. Left-wing leaders call for violence against conservatives. And the media acts like this is all normal.” The left attempted to murder President Trump (again).Secret Service remains unpaid. Left-wing leaders call for violence against conservatives. And the media acts like this is all normal.— Tim Scott (@votetimscott) April 26, 2026…