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The defeat of Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, should deliver a sharp jolt to one of America’s two major political parties. Source link
While waiting for Vice President J.D. Vance—who as Senator Vance was among the corporal’s guard of war skeptics in that body—either to regain his voice or to reclaim his cojones from a safe-deposit box buried deep within the bowels of Trump Tower, patriots in the administration’s foreign-policy division might examine how their forebears answered the question, “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” In Resignation in Protest (1975), the political scientists Edward Weisband and Thomas M. Franck wondered why, despite Vietnam and Watergate, there had been so few “courageous public defections of key disaffected members of the Johnson and Nixon…
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Our dependence on fossil fuels does more than pollute our air. It destabilizes the world and empowers the ultra-wealthy to profit off of that volatility, leaving working families to pay the price. This dynamic has been on full display since President Trump’s attack on Iran. Trump’s invasion of one of the world’s most oil-rich regions jolted energy markets, sending gas prices soaring to the highest level in either of his terms. In 2024 he campaigned on cutting them in half. Instead, Americans are now on track to pay roughly $720 more for gasoline this year. The full cost to…
SAN DIEGO—Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign implosion on Friday couldn’t have been better timing for California Republicans. The state’s GOP was already set to convene in San Diego for their spring convention over the weekend, and the series of Democratic leader defections from Swalwell, as additional sexual allegations surfaced on social media, left candidates and activists gleeful and gloating. Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host and the frontrunner in the crowded contest to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in November, on Saturday addressed hundreds of attendees, beginning his address by using Swalwell as a punchline. “After 16 years of…
I started hearing the swirling Eric Swalwell rumors a couple of weeks ago. There were stories coming, and they were going to be bad. Well they came, all right—and they were very bad indeed. The excellent San Francisco Chronicle article detailing Swalwell’s alleged sexual assaults against one former staffer was simply appalling to read. The aide charges that Swalwell got her drunk and took advantage of her more than once. Read Full Article ⟶ Source link
While Modi’s supporters argue the U.S.-Israel war on Iran was never India’s war, Betwa Sharma says the government has undercut its effort to project India as a vishwaguru, or world teacher, in a new era of global influence. The arrival in the Tehran cementery Behesht-e Zahra on March 15 of the bodies of Iranian sailors from the U.S. sinking of the war ship the Dena while it was in the Indian Ocean. (Tasnim News Agency/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 4.0) By Betwa Sharmain New Delhi, IndiaSpecial to Consortium News With its archrival, Pakistan, now seen to some extent as a peacemaker and…
It is difficult to believe the pace at which global events are now moving. Apocalyptic threats are being thrown around recklessly and severe damage is being done to the global economic system every single day. A lot of people still seem to think that economic conditions will snap back to normal once the war ends, and that is because they don’t understand the level of destruction that has already taken place. Even if the war ends tomorrow and commercial traffic starts flowing freely through the Strait of Hormuz once again, the world won’t be getting nearly as much energy from…
What happened to Eric Swalwell, who suspended his campaign for California on Sunday, was not a reckoning over gross behavior. Source link
Tariffs implemented last year by President Donald Trump’s administration are entirely to blame for the recent surge in prices for consumer and household goods. Those tariffs have raised core goods prices by 3.1 percent, according to a new study by a trio of economists at the Federal Reserve. Those higher consumer prices were the result of retailers passing the cost of tariffs along the supply chain. As of February 2026, the tariffs “can explain the entirety of the excess inflation in the core goods category since January 2025,” the economists concluded. “Our estimates indicate that tariff effects on prices gradually…
Make no mistake: the self-proclaimed defenders of America’s liberal democracy at The Bulwark love war. But the one thing that may possibly outweigh Bill Kristol and company’s love of war may be their hatred for Donald Trump. So, it should be no surprise The Bulwark provided space for John Fea to not criticize the Iran War but instead take shots at MAGA evangelicals for how they’re supporting Trump’s war. See, they’re not supporting the war properly. These sycophantic “celebrity pastors” are just blindly cheerleading the war out of bloodlust and devotion to Trump. (Fea really wants you to understand these are merely “celebrity” pastors as…